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...embrace warmly in Denver,” he said. “We all lose unless they reconcile.” Ogletree said Jackson accepted the invitation to speak, his second appearance at the AME, because he was interested in the connection of this year’s President??s Day to the upcoming November election. Ogletree said that Jackson wanted to link the role of Obama to other significant civil rights leaders who were instrumental in pushing for greater democracy and racial inclusion in America over the last few decades. In his speech, Jackson made the connection...
...that this president??s reactionary fervor has played out on the world stage and as Iran’s economy slows, the system seems primed for more upheaval. According to an article in The New York Times yesterday, the Iranian political elite grows more frustrated every day with Ahmadinejad; insistent on progress, they have begun to clamor and sadly, be repressed. Meanwhile, the president clings to his popular image as principled and righteous among the more religious majority. Even under the alien auspices of a theocracy, the similarities of the Iranian electoral system to our own are salient...
...lower Harvard’s carbon imprint. In December, Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith expressed support for a plan to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions. But Kerry criticized President Drew G. Faust’s refusal to sign the American College and University President??s Climate Commitment—an agreement of university and college presidents to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050 that has been signed by 440 university presidents. “Every university and college in America that is dedicated to teaching students correctly and instilling...
Although we welcome Bush’s initiative, we worry about his desire to have a peace in place by the time he leaves office. The peace processes should not be dictated by the electoral cycle and a lame duck president??s desire to craft a legacy. The process cannot be rushed, and the end of the second Bush presidency should not be the end of the current push for peace, as the end of the Clinton administration was seven years...
Still, “There are laws, there are obligations that we have to uphold,” she said, adding later that at least one university president??John McCardell, president emeritus of Middlebury College—has called for the drinking age to be lowered...