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...uncharacteristically blunt terms, Sen. John F. Kerry delivered an impassioned plea for action on climate change at the Law School Wednesday, rebuking the nation’s “screwed up” priorities and criticizing both the U.S. government and Harvard for not taking stronger action to reduce carbon emissions. “The level of irresponsibility with respect to environmental issues is beyond comprehension,” Kerry said, noting that the U.S. has ignored international efforts to cap emissions and is trailing most of the developed world in using renewable fuels for electricity generation...
...Czechoslovakia-born Albright served as America’s top diplomat during President Bill Clinton’s second term, from 1997 to 2001. She is supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Democrat of New York, in the upcoming election, but she did not comment extensively on the Democratic race during her appearance...
Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton edged out Illinois Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary yesterday, giving the New York politician a crucial win in her quest to become the first female candidate to be nominated by either major party. In the Republican race, Sen. John McCain defeated former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney, repeating his win in the state that launched the Arizona veteran’s strong showing in the 2000 presidential primaries. Clinton’s victory, by a three point margin with 96 percent of precints reporting, came less than a week after Obama won the Iowa...
...decade. In response to the ballooning size of university coffers, some legislators have sought to require that educational institutions spend at least 5 percent of their endowment annually. “The donations to those endowments and the endowments themselves are all tax-exempt,” said Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has championed the 5 percent mandate, in a statement Monday. “American taxpayers are subsidizing that tax-exemption, and they deserve public benefit in return.” Yale previously targeted an endowment payout rate of 5.25 percent and Harvard currently aims...
...G.O.P. contest. What may have been more unusual were all the last-minute deciders. "I've never seen this many people in New Hampshire undecided this late," said Dale Kuehne, associate professor of politics at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, as voters prepared to go to the polls. Arizona Sen. John McCain, near-broke and plummeting in the polls just months ago, put on the same green sweater he wore for his 2000 comeback in New Hampshire, and even stayed in the same hotel room. "There is no superstition I won't indulge," he said. In the end, the sweater...