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...chief climate negotiator Todd Stern telling delegates, "We want to make up for lost time." But for the most part, the U.S. team remained passive observers. That can be chalked up to the fact that it has been on the job for mere weeks, but it's a worrying sign of how hard-pressed the international community will be if it wants to meet its deadline of creating a new Kyoto by December. "There's a lot of goodwill because [the U.S. is] back and everyone is tired of spending the last eight years in the dungeon," says Jake Schmidt...
...everyday. We live in an America where people will pay 10 dollars to watch a “Final Destination” movie and have a good time; for a little more, you can get video games in which you can deal drugs and kill prostitutes. We can sign up for breaking news updates on our cell phones, so we never miss a car chase or a police standoff.To say that Americans have become desensitized in the last 30 years is a cliché, but it’s true. This therefore raises the question: does the footage of caskets...
...salesman knocking at my door,” Butler intones. “I don’t want to live in America no more.” Right on cue, the cab stops for a red light right next to a Best Buy store, and its glowing sign floats in space next to Butler’s countenance. Even as he laments the cultural deadening of that old-time American religion—namely, consumerism—one of its emblems pops up, neon-bright, just through his cab’s window. It’s a perfect...
...Penn] lost their opening matches, but when we come out, we always seem to have a target on our back,” Fish said. “So we always seem to make people play their best against us, and we try to see that as a sign of respect.” —Staff writer Allen J. Padua can be reached at ajpadua@fas.harvard.edu...
...tardy fan who showed up at the top of the 6th inning yesterday, the game had no sign of a likely victor. Neither the scoreboard nor the stat sheet had much convincing evidence. BU had scored the game’s only run up to that point in the third inning, and both teams executed well defensively and on the mound. Neither the Terriers nor the Crimson were busting any stitches from the plate...