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...White House calls the changes "narrow," but greens say the effect on one of the most significant environmental laws in U.S. history would be enormous. "I've been working on this act for 15 years, and this is by far the most serious threat that I have ever seen," says John Kostyack, director of wildlife conservation and global warming for the National Wildlife Federation. As required under law, the Administration opened the proposed change to a 10-day period of public comment - and received some 300,000 comments, which greens say indicates just how unpopular the proposal would...
Shaheen, the first woman elected governor of New Hampshire, in 1996, becomes the first woman elected Senator there. In a rematch of her narrow 2002 loss to John E. Sununu, Shaheen capitalized on Bush's unpopularity and Sununu's voting record, as the Granite State went solidly blue...
...last five minutes of the game, Rensselaer rallied for a comeback, as RPI’s Josh Rabbani finished off a rebound on the power play to narrow...
...when it comes to marriage equality. “He’s not been as loud a champion as marriage equality as he should be,” McCarthy said of Obama, who has said that gay marriage should remain a state issue. McCarthy said that the narrow margin by which Proposition 8 was approved also reflected progress. “We’re within two percentage points of marriage equality,” he said. “We’re talking about a country moving in the right direction toward equality...
...Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Al Gore ’69, and (sort of) Bill Gates, “You could cover politics, finance, the arts, architecture, really anything.”Still, there were skeptics who believed that the magazine’s focus was too narrow. Alumnus Stephen P. Younger ’77, who received the magazine free of charge for its first year, says, “It was a very interesting, people-oriented magazine. It was high quality and good content, and had features that I found of interest regarding Harvard alums...