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...topic all these candidates are avoiding, but should address before they retire from this year's national political brawl, is the environment. We should not be reassured by the recent cold snap that has gripped the whole northeast; we are still facing large disruptions in the climate. Larger, that is, than the tornado that ripped apart Oklahoma City, the hurricane that created over $1 billion in damage in North Carolina or the $4 billion in damage caused all across northern Europe by freak windstorms last December...
There are certainly students outside the Ivy-lined Northeast who could get in to prestigious schools such as Harvard. But Gattman and others say that deeply rooted cultural traditions combined with Harvard's reputation for liberalism keep many of these students from heading North for college...
Students from the Northeast fill the gap left by the shortage of Southerners. While 25.6 percent of the U.S. population resides in the Northeast, 48.1 percent of Harvard's population comes from that region...
...South is a bastion of conservatism. In both the 1992 and 1996 elections, the Clinton-Gore ticket carried only two Southern states, excluding their home states of Arkansas and Tennessee. But they carried every state in the Northeast both times--and in 1996, the Democrats took Massachusetts with 63 percent of the vote, the highest of any state...
...proposed giving $1.6 billion in military aid to fight drug lords in Colombia last week, he probably never thought of the U'Wa Indians. But the tribe is fighting off attempts by Occidental Petroleum to drill for an estimated 1.5 billion bbl. of oil on ancestral lands in the northeast of the country; hundreds of the U'Wa are currently involved in a tense standoff with Colombian troops trying to remove them from drilling sites...