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...citizens are left feeling alienated and frustrated. Forget Eurabia. The real issue facing Europe is multiculturalism - using that word not as a policy option, but as a fact. The world contains over 5,000 ethnocultural groups, and technology, cheap airfares and the global economy have scattered them around the planet, in countless combinations. Since the immigrant waves in the '50s and '60s, European nations have been looking for different ways to blend different people of different cultures into successful, peaceful societies. All had the same goal: a society that gives equal opportunity and equal respect, regardless of race, creed, color...
...past is something everybody shares. It is not a special interest. It belongs to all of us and the entire planet,” Professor of Latin Kathleen M. Coleman said. “I want to state the danger as simply as possible: a person who has no sense of the past cannot imagine the future...
Noorzai was the smallest of the big fish, but only because the list included Latin American heavyweights at the time considered the most powerful and dangerous crime families on the planet. It is possible, a sign of either immense confidence or sloppiness, that Noorzai did not know he had made the top 10 kingpin list that was posted on international law-enforcement websites. But a simple Google search might have warned him off his next move...
...neutral. In the past, the NFL has sponsored tree plantings to offset the hundreds of tons of greenhouse gases emitted during the event--from stadium lights and other fuel burners, like the buses that shuttle spectators around town. This year the league is partnering with alternative-energy provider Sterling Planet to use renewable-energy certificates (RECs) to promote the use of nonpolluting power sources. Lowering emissions, rather than simply offsetting them, would be the next logical play...
...ah’s certainty of the continued dominance of oil. “He was a little bit too willing to assert estimates favorable to his industry,” Mitchell C. Hunter ’09 said. Chris D. Holmes, a graduate student in Earth and Planet Sciences, echoed the point. “I was surprised by his confidence in the oil industry to remain unperturbed with possible new technologies,” he said. —Staff writer Shoshana S. Tell can be reached at stell@fas.harvard.edu...