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...advocacy group at the summit, is particularly troubling. Mithika has implied that efforts such as those of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to set up financial compensation for poor countries to enact climate change reforms will “sell out the lives and hopes of Africans for a pittance??—strong words for a leading African minister working toward the same stated goal as PACJA. Yet perhaps Mwenda’s comment aptly calls into question the “hopes” Africans harbor for the summit—is climate change the central...
...lack thereof—for the rapidly-approaching summer. In true Harvardian form, most students will rush off in six short weeks to don a suit and build their résumé at some ritzy New York financial institution, ready to be exploited for a pittance??all for the sake of a secured future. But though it’s certain to rouse some neurotic tendencies, Harvard students should realize that productive uses of the summer sojourn also include travel and relaxation...
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