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...with the big deadline another year off and the U.S. in the midst of a leadership vacuum on climate change (see below), progress out of Poznan will likely be slow and more about process than measurable targets. "Poznan was never going to be a conference where a spectacular outcome was to be expected," said French climate ambassador Brice Lalonde at the summit. "We hope for a spectacular outcome in Copenhagen next year. You can't expect a mouse to give birth to a mountain - it will only give birth to a mouse." (Translation: Small town, small summit, small expectations...
...vague for now. Although he sent observers to the summit, many greens wish he had deployed a high-level representative - like Vice President-elect Joseph Biden - to focus the world's attention on Poznan. As it is, the U.S. vacuum is the perfect excuse to justify the generally slow progress of the talks. Yet once Obama takes over on Jan. 20, he'll have less than a year to get ready for Copenhagen. That's nothing in U.N. negotiation time. (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
Additionally, the Medical School will not be able to slow spending on its fixed, non-discretionary expenditures, such as repayments on debt that was floated to fund the school’s capital projects for new construction and renovation...
...should approach change is not by giving the administration a laundry list of things to change. It should foster student-based solutions, mobilize students behind the problem, and then lobby the administration.”James stresses that students should bring about change themselves instead of waiting for the slow-moving administrative process to run its course.One of the most important changes James and Wong hope to bring is Administrative Board reform.“I originally thought of running because I got political feelings about Harvard when I was Ad Boarded for something that...
...Over many years there have been trends,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Some fields attract more of the best students. But these effects are very slow and usually not huge or dramatic...