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...campaign was a low-key affair—voter turnout dropped to under 14 percent??€”and Connolly drew fire for his campaign tactics after he distributed two anonymous flyers that attacked incumbent City Councilor Stephen J. Murphy...
...aghast at the cost that greenhouse gas reductions would inflict upon Harvard. These criticisms, however, are flawed for two reasons. First and foremost, many of the efforts towards neutrality would actually save money. Harvard’s Green Campus Loan Fund has achieved a return-on-investment of 26 percent??€”a higher return than the endowment—by funding efficiency and conservation measures that pay for themselves within five to ten years. Efficiency savings could be used to fund other aspects of emission reduction, such as investment in renewable energy...
...clip. He leads the league in three-pointers made per game at 3.21. While Wittman represents a formidable deep threat for the Big Red, Cornell also boasts the Ivy League leader in assists—five per contest—and free-throw percentage—95 percent??€”in 5’11 guard Dale. The Crimson will have to find a way to stop this dynamic duo that leads the league’s best offense at 76.5 points per game. Cornell’s defense is not so shabby either...
...years following 9/11, the Bush administration’s foreign policy has followed a course without measure or restraint, an overstep that has been largely tolerated. Since the attacks, American defense expenditures have skyrocketed 26 percent??€”a rate of increase unsurpassed in any period of comparable length since World War II. To make matters worse, on Monday, President Bush asked for $515.4 billion for the peacetime military establishment in 2009—a $35.9 billion increase over his 2008 request. This yawning defense budget may seem a necessary evil in light of the ongoing wars in Afghanistan...
...whether it’s at the polls or through protests, we are shockingly passive. Gone is the daring sense of activism that characterized our parents’ generation. Even in the Presidential election of 2004, when the youth vote surged to its highest rate ever—47 percent??€”the rate still lagged well behind that of all other age groups. 2003’s 200,000 person-strong march against the War in Iraq doesn’t compare to the half-a-million-person 1969 and 1971 demonstrations against Vietnam . Marches on Washington Mall...