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Here's an unorthodox candidate for the title of America's greenest President: Richard Milhous Nixon. It was the arch-Republican Nixon, after all, who created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, who signed the landmark Clean Air Act into law. Nixon isn't the only Republican President who can claim a green legacy. Environmentalism as a political force effectively began with President Theodore Roosevelt, a lifelong conservationist and outdoorsman who made Yosemite a national park and created 42 million acres of national forests. And even George H.W. Bush, whose promise to be the "environmental President...
Eric S. Chivian ’64, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, said he felt a certain degree of trepidation in meeting Evangelical minister Richard Cizik. But the two were able to put aside their differences and fashion a program to protect the global environment called the Scientists and Evangelicals Initiative...
...Your alteration of this photograph devalues their sacrifice and that of many others. In this time of war, when so many families are receiving a neatly folded flag in honor of their fallen loved ones, your cover is truly offensive. Have we as a nation become so ungrateful? Richard Putney, RICHMOND...
...Richard Stengel, MANAGING EDITOR
...formal writing. “This is the top of the mountain peak that you’re surveying as far as potential quality and smarts of the student group,” he said. “Maybe [Harvard] is unrepresentative of American human youth.” Richard Sterling, who chaired the advisory board for College Board’s National Commission on Writing, believes that the fact that students are using informal language in school is “good news.” When students use this type of language in their academic writing, it opens...