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...stretched out of shape, and it won’t snap back on its own,” he said. There will need to be an extraordinary effort by the next president, Suskind said, to give back power that had been inappropriately seized. Suskind explored the post-Sept. 11 rise in the power of the executive branch and its influence on everyday people in his most recent book, “The Way of the World,” which debuted at number three on the New York Times’ bestseller list last summer. Looking ahead to next week?...
...pointing to his lack of experience and claiming he was trying to convert Maldivians to Christianity - a weighty accusation in this staunchly Sunni Muslim state. But with all the opposition factions united behind him, Nasheed turned his deficit from the first vote into a significant majority and completed his rise from prison to the halls of power amid scenes of widespread jubilation in Male...
...concentration of carbon in the atmosphere. Before the industrial age, the concentration was about 280 parts per million (p.p.m.) of carbon in the atmosphere. After a few centuries of burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels, we've raised that concentration to 387 p.p.m., and it continues to rise by about 2 p.p.m. every year. Many scientists believe that we need to at least stabilize carbon concentrations at 450 p.p.m. to ensure that global temperatures don't increase more than about 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level. To do that, we need to reduce global carbon emissions (which...
...many teachers in Harvard’s government department, Sarah Palin’s rise to prominence might be the basis for a lesson on Republican enthusiasm and the political pitfalls of a 24-hour news cycle...
...census report, the fifth-poorest city in the country, and yet it ranks as among the most livable. A building that houses the near homeless is having trouble making its mortgage payments, and yet in one survey its location was the only northeast metro area that saw home prices rise last month. You want to see hope and fear arm-wrestling each other? Come to Pittsburgh...