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...coal plants coming online is so dire that it demands a more corporeal level of engagement. This fall, at the annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, Al Gore announced, "I believe we've reached the stage where it's time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal-fired power plants that do not have sequestration...
...Institute of Politics, the floor was opened up to questions from the audience. In response to a question from Alex S. Jones, the director of the Shorenstein Center, Schwartz said that Obama faces huge obstacles if elected, despite the transformational nature of the election. These obstacles, Schwartz said, may prevent him from being an “achiever” president and may force him into the role of a “preparer” president. “Whatever he does, it’s a starting point to being some sort of change...
...polling place before in five elections at this place since 2000,” he said. Even with high voter turnout, the Harvard-area polling stations, at Quincy House, the Graham and Parks Alternative School located next to the Radcliffe Quadrangle, and the Graduate School of Design managed to prevent any major voting-machine errors, according to officials at the Quincy House polling station. Aside from missing a sheet from the voter rolls at the beginning of the day, the Quincy House station did not experience any other problems, said an official at the polling station. He added that...
...also students are more affected by the media and their peers than by their professors. But disproving this conservative dogma does not eradicate the resentment that feeds it—a resentment born out of political frustration with no productive (not to mention logical) end. Nor does it prevent the measures this dogma engenders, including calls for universities to hire only “apolitical” faculty members. In reality, many conservative hawks who support such measures, including the notorious David Horowitz, are precisely the sources of the political radicalism they publicly decry—only...
...pollsters that serve the National Election News Pool. But this organization suffered its own scandal in 2004 when exit poll data was leaked online around midday on Election Day, prompting bloggers to declare John Kerry the presumptive winner. In 2006, the pollsters began quarantining representatives of the NEP to prevent such leaks from occurring...