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Devlin led the collaborative effort among House Eco representatives to pass out blue and black trash bags to tailgaters at the October football game and increase awareness about Harvard’s sustainability efforts. “A lot of people at the tailgate know that we are here to recycle, so now they expect us,” she said...
...comity, Obama has gained the global credibility to get tough - on Iran, for example - in his second year. But the real evaluation of Obama's debut must wait for the results of the two biggest problems he's tackling: his decision on Afghanistan and the congressional attempt to pass health care reform. And even here, it will be difficult to render judgment immediately - as difficult as it was to judge Clinton's decision to spend his political capital on deficit reduction in his 1993 economic plan, a triumph that didn't become apparent for nearly five years...
...first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post-World War II era. We're still weeks away from the end of '09, but it's not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want - just give thanks that it is nearly over. (See TIME's photo-essay "The 10 Worst Things About the Worst Decade Ever...
...Liberhan was only a fact-finding commission whose findings and suggestions carry no legal weight, they may give new impetus to the cases currently pending. But concern to avoid creating martyrs for the BJP to rally around and stoke new tensions might prompt the government to let the matter pass...
...debate, it would appear that one word is testing well in internal Republican focus groups: "arrogant," which is how they repeatedly described the Democratic approach. On Sunday, minority leader Mitch McConnell was at it again, telling CNN that he does not believe Democratic moderates will allow the bill to pass without significant changes: "I believe there are a number of Democratic Senators who do care what the American people think and are not interested in this sort of arrogant approach that everybody sort of shut up and sit down, get out of the way, we know what's best...