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...University announced this fall a commitment to keep greenhouse gas emissions in its new science complex in Allston at 50 percent below the national standard...
...After serving as IOP director for two years, Shaheen resigned this September to make her second bid for the U.S. Senate. Shaheen, who served three terms as New Hampshire’s governor from 1997 to 2003, lost the 2002 race to Sununu by just four percent. Shaheen is not the only Harvard-affiliated Democrat whose electoral fortunes in a Senate race have improved this week. Mark Warner, a Harvard Law School graduate who served as Virginia’s governor from 2002 to 2006, won the Virginia primary on Tuesday, though his rival, Julien Modica, has yet to officially...
...entire match. The other victory came from No. 5 freshman Eliot Buchanan, who beat Yale senior Ho Ming Chiu. Harvard’s No. 3, 6,7,8, and 9 spots all lost their matches 3-0. “Everyone went out there and gave 100 percent, but I think some of us weren’t competing as well as we could have,” DiSesa said. Many of the Crimson’s matches could have gone either way. For example, No. 4 Harvard junior Niko Hrdy took the first game against Yale junior Francis Johnson...
...media spin, and it seems now that they will end it by soliciting votes from party elites instead of the American people.In a contest with just over 4,000 total delegates, these unpledged Democratic “superdelegates” control almost 800 votes—a 20 percent stake that could become the margin of victory in the nomination. The Republicans, gradually coalescing around John McCain, have been spared the superdelegate dogfight in 2008, but their policy is far from commendable: 19 percent of the delegates to the Republican National Convention are unpledged; of those, a significant portion...
...incident has sparked a furor among average citizens, politicians and historical conservationists, who are demanding to know why the 610-year-old landmark was inadequately safeguarded, especially in light of the fact Korea has already lost more than 90 percent of its traditional non-religious architectural sites over the last century. "There's so little left, it is just heartrending," says Peter Bartholomew, president of the Korea branch of the Royal Asiatic Society and an expert on medieval Korean architecture...