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...Mexico. And if we consider the longer-term catastrophic risks from the runaway greenhouse effect, shutdown of the Gulf Stream and collapse of the West Antarctic ice shelf, curbing carbon dioxide emissions is a small price to pay for insurance, even though adaptation will also be needed. William R. Cline, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics and Center for Global Development, Washington
...Steven R. Shapiro, Legal Director American Civil Liberties Union NEW YORK CITY...
When Marion R. Holmes ’06 left her summer job in New Hampshire to start anew at a West Coast environmental education center in August, she was bracing for a change. But she was not quite ready for the uncertainty of being evacuated from her home less than two months later, a result of one of the several California wildfires that have raged through the southern part of the state this week. The fires have blackened some 645 square miles in seven counties and led to the evacuation of half a million people, including many members...
Professors and students at the Law School are placing their bets on the legal legitimacy of online poker. Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, is exploring the possibility of a bill that will remove congressional limitations on online gaming. In 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, barring U.S. banks from transferring money to online gaming companies. But this April, Rep. Barney Frank ’61 (D-Mass.) introduced a bill...
...really feel that a House master would be extremely qualified because he understands what [interacting with students] would be like,” Gillis said. “We need someone who is wiling to work with student leaders.” David R. Pilbeam, who has served as interim dean of the College since September, has said he is not a candidate in the search. Sophia C. Sakellariadis ’11, one of the two freshmen on the undergraduate committee, said the committee’s conversation with Smith about the qualities most desirable in a dean expanded...