Word: roberts
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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...
...Templeton, the son of the philanthropist Sir John Templeton ($450,000); and Focus on the Family ($500,000). Fighting against approval of Prop. 8 are celebrities like Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw ($50,000 each), as well as former GOP U.S. Senate candidate Michael Huffington ($100,000); Robert Haas, chairman emeritus of Levi Straus ($200,000); and the California Teachers Union Issues PAC ($2 million). The media battle has been intense. Talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres (who had vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden on her show to oppose Prop. 8) has thrown $100,000 to buy TV time...
...police are killed or wounded every day. The death toll has prompted accusations from security analysts and development organizations that the police are being used as cannon fodder - a cheaper version of the ANA, which benefits from several more months worth of training, and better weapons. Major General Robert Cone, the U.S. commander in charge of building the Afghan security forces, defends the program, pointing out that the ANA is still too small to tie brigades down to high-risk districts when the mobile forces are required to clear other insecure areas. Instead, police districts that have gone through...