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...officials from over 150 countries met at a U.N. conference on climate change and the international response to global warming. Many saw this conference as testing ground for ideas likely to be presented in a separate December conference in Bali, which will address what legislation should supplant the Kyoto Protocol upon its 2013 expiration. At September’s conference, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice’s presentation veered noticably away from the idea of emissions caps, focusing almost exclusively on the potential of improved “energy technologies.” Paired with President Bush?...
...same. Among other cases, the court will decide whether the Bush Administration can continue to imprison hundreds of detainees at Guantnamo Bay for years without any meaningful judicial review, whether voter-ID laws are constitutional and whether we can execute human beings using a lethal-injection protocol that we do not allow for our household pets. These are not small questions. The answers will help determine our standing in the world, the functioning of our democracy and what the Supreme Court has described as "evolving standards of decency." In short, the Supreme Court still matters, and all Americans should...
...Mulcahy said. “So I’m seeing the same guys, and they’re wearing the Harvard shirts that they’ve won. It definitely makes you want to work harder.”With Mulcahy as captain and Young as the lightweight protocol (LP), the other official leadership position in Newell boathouse, the Harvard lightweights have already begun their quest for gold at IRAs, even if it is just October.And come springtime, the Crimson will meet Cornell and Penn in the first week of the spring racing season. Mulcahy and Young will have...
...trip to England out of it.”As a junior, Wintner returned for his second season on the varsity and rowed all year with the second varsity eight.Now in his final season with the Harvard heavyweights, Wintner enters Newell Boathouse as the varsity’s Master Protocol, the squad’s rule enforcer and a senior leader for the Crimson varsity.Wintner has high hopes for the coming season—and with good reason, as Harvard capped off its 2007 campaign with a win at Henley and returns 13 oarsmen from its top two boats last...
...Rudd, whose tightly managed campaign began the moment he became Labor leader last December, has stressed his economic conservatism. Accused of copying government policies, he listed five "fundamental differences": Labor's plans to moderate recent workplace reforms, pump money into health and education, ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and pull troops from Iraq...