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Though he proposed potential solutions, Offenheiser also lamented the lack of reform enacted to resolve the food crisis...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OxFam President Weighs Food Crisis | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...emissions at Harvard by 30 percent by 2016, but, more recently, she also signed the Campus Sustainability Pledge, which proved a major victory for Harvard’s environmentally minded students. In a letter to the Harvard community in late September, Faust highlighted the need to seek environmental reforms even beyond our own our campus. For instance, in describing campus expansion efforts across the Charles in Allston, Faust stressed her hope that Allston’s green example would serve as an example for the community beyond. “Every one of us has a stake in the outcome...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Sustain Sustainability | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...Angeles mayoral election: "A progressive 'Good Government' coalition - popularly, and a bit derisively, known as the Goo Goos - had nominated George Alexander, a former city supervisor. "Honest Uncle George" campaigned dressed up as Uncle Sam on a moralistic reform platform that promised to rid the freewheeling city of gamblers, prostitutes, and even the bewilderingly popular blind pig races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Terrorism, 1910-Style | 9/29/2008 | See Source »

...ground in Alaska when Putin flies over it is cited as foreign policy experience by •meets and is photographed with two world leaders and Henry Kissinger •possibility of another Great Depression warned about by •is unable to cite single example of McCain's efforts to reform banking industry, finally tells Katie Couric "I'll try to find ya some and I'll bring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Wrapup | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...Which is why a major overhaul of the health-insurance system may be worth a try, especially if it can be sold as a reform - as a means to make U.S. companies more competitive and the economy more efficient. The ground seems particularly ripe for a plan that would provide universal coverage while relieving U.S. businesses of their suffocating health-insurance responsibilities and does it without socializing medicine. Senators Ron Wyden (Democrat, Oregon) and Bob Bennett (Republican, Utah) have made such a proposal, the Healthy Americans Act, which has gained the support of 15 Senate co-sponsors, evenly divided between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of the Age of Activism | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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