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...foreign-policy portion of her disastrous Sept. 25 interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric. A number of commentators, including the Atlantic's James Fallows and Slate's Christopher Beam, have echoed Beam's assessment that Palin resembled a "high schooler trying to BS her way through a book report," which is an insult to both high schoolers and BS. Palin's answers were hesitant, convoluted and, at times - like when she appeared to suggest that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might be preparing a one-man airborne invasion of Alaska - downright loony...
Despite recommendations set forth in a February report about new student parents, the maternity process for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is still awaiting a rebirth. Graduate Student Council president Kyle M. Brown said a committee is currently fine-tuning the details of “two halves” of the parental accommodation policy: providing access to affordable childcare and paid time off for new student parents. According to the report issued by the Joint Student Committee on Parental Accommodation, 50 percent of surveyed GSAS student parents saw their stipends lapse while on leave and 40 percent...
Mark Orlowski, the founder and executive director of the Cambridge-based Sustainable Endowments Institute that produces the report, said he thinks that universities can play a “critical role” in educating students on how to reduce environmental impact and hopes that the report encourages these initiatives...
While Harvard’s score, tied for the top one awarded, has not changed, two thirds of universities surveyed over the past two years have improved their grades. In the 2008 report, there were only three Overall College Sustainabilty Leaders (a grade of A-) in addition to Harvard. But this year, an additional 11 schools, including Stanford, Brown, and Columbia, joined the ranks. Yale remained slightly below with a B+ overall...
...report touted various measures as evidence of Harvard’s commitment to the environment, namely Faust’s push to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2006 levels by 2016 and the continued expansion of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative...