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Newman's Own Legend I enjoyed reading Robert Redford's tribute to Paul Newman but was disappointed that Redford felt the need to interject so much about himself [Oct. 13]. He should have kept the focus entirely on his exceptional and talented friend. Mary Knaus LeCluyse, LEAWOOD, KANS...
...total emissions reductions needed to lower atmospheric carbon to a safe level can come from cutting emissions in personal residences. “The problem is connecting [individual] behaviors to the implications of this problem [of climate change] that they all admit is there,” Clark said. Robert N. Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program at HKS, presented an opposing view, arguing that “voluntary initiatve and reliance on unilateral action is...insignificant.” Stavins said that a solution founded on market-based instruments and government regulation, in which institutions and businesses...
...said. “With this site, I’m able to click on them, skim through them real fast, and see a ‘yes’ vote means this, a ‘no’ vote means this.”Robert Willington, executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, said he agreed that Imagine Election plays an important role in streamlining user-specific information for voters. “There is nothing worse than voting at the top of the ticket, and then blanking the bottom races due to a lack of information, ignorance...
...several works to world premiere with the BSO. On Friday afternoon, he led the orchestra through Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6,” a world premiere of Leon Kirchner’s “The Forbidden,” and Robert Schumann’s “Piano Concerto in A Minor” with soloist Maurizio Pollini. The program was a unique combination of romanticism and contemporary styles, united by the passion running though each of the works. The concert opened with Tchaikovsky?...
Anyone who has watched Robert Mugabe this year, as the 84-year-old dictator of almost three decades railed against colonial phantoms while stealing an election, ruining the economy and starving his people, might be tempted to take Zimbabwe as the story of Africa. But if Mugabe is the most famous living example of an African tyrant, evidence of a very different Africa has never been far away. Botswana, which shares a border with Zimbabwe, has for decades been mainland Africa's brightest star, a country that has gone from dustbowl poverty to middle income status in a generation, where...