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This could be a make-or-break summer for Six Flags. And in the current economic environment, families will likely sacrifice thrill-ride screams for savings. So why, in the face of such serious challenges, would Six Flags respond by rolling out an ad campaign featuring a widely mocked character that the company's own chairman once said is "misguided" and "weakens the brand"? Why, just when the stakes are at an all-time high, is a bankrupt company putting that creepy dancing old guy back on our TVs? (See the best and worst Super Bowl commercials...
...question now is whether this process will continue in the future, as the world keeps warming. Scientists create climate models to try to predict how the earth will respond to higher levels of greenhouse-gas emissions, but only one model - created by the Hadley Centre in Britain - includes the possible impact of changing cloud behavior. And the bad news is that the Hadley model contains particularly high temperature increases for the 21st century, in part because it sees dissipating cloud cover as a positive-feedback cycle - meaning the warmer it gets, the less cloud cover there will be, which will...
...declined to speak to The Crimson, writing in an e-mailed statement Wednesday night that he has been "overwhelmed by email and phone calls" and "unfortunately" could not address each request individually at the current time. His lawyer and friend, law school professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., did not respond to repeated requests for comment by The Crimson.Gates, who has accused Crowley of fabricating information in the police report documenting the incident, has offered to personally educate the officer on the "history of racism in America and the issue of racial profiling." He also said he has been inspired...
...form of a final bill that is hard to oppose. A truism of Washington politics is that everybody talks about common ground but nobody likes it - at least, until they're in danger of being the only ones standing in the way. The process also inspired some participants to respond in good faith; several Catholic endorsers who do not support contraception did not let that stop them from giving their full backing to the bill. President Barack Obama provided an additional boost in his commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame, in which he urged groups to come together...
...which sees Central Asia as its backyard, is especially worried about the uptick in violence along its borders. In the meantime, the Russian government announced early in July that it would be basing rapid-deployment forces in the south of Kyrgyzstan. From there, the forces would be able to respond quickly to any unrest in the entire region, including along Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan. (Read "Tajikistan's President: No Photos, Please...