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...interlocutors lacked specific emission-reduction targets, and only included a vague pledge to attempt to keep global warming from rising above the upper safe limit of 2 degrees celsius. The dissenters also attacked the climate finance for poor countries promised in the deal - around $30 billion for the period to 2012, and $100 billion annually by 2020 - as far short of the needs of the nations hardest hit by global warming. Perhaps most of all, they were angry because the deal was struck behind closed doors by a handful of powerful nations, and then presented to the rest...
...timed to coincide with a major global alumni conference in Africa and involving an entourage of deans and other staff would have appeared extravagant, not to mention a distraction from tasks at home. Instead, Faust met with smaller groups of alumni and research programs in Africa over a shorter period of time, cutting both financial and personnel demands...
Williams in particular praised the originality of Kaiser’s work on the “ludicrous,” which sought to discover what was funny, playful, absurd, or irrational in the highly serious Victorian period...
...three-week January term represents a new provision under the altered academic calendar which then-interim University President Derek C. Bok approved in 2007, and which was instituted this year. While the College initially planned to provide programming during the January period, budgetary concerns precluded that option, leading administrators to instead institute an application process to approve athletes, researchers, and thesis writers needing to stay on campus over the break...
Cockrel is aware that much of her potential bid's appeal and challenge lies in her personal narrative. She grew up in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood in the 1950s and '60s - a period when, she recalls, it was populated largely with Irish and Maltese immigrants as well as Puerto Ricans. Her parents managed a soup kitchen. As a student at Wayne State University in the late 1960s, she had a front-row seat to one of the defining moments in Detroit's history: the 1967 riots - or "rebellion," as she recalls it. On the morning of July 23 of that...