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...Business: Moving Ahead Big business is often characterized by many climate-change activists as the bad guy. But while politicians, especially those in the U.S., have been slow to grapple with global warming, many corporations have been moving ahead on their own. They're cutting carbon emissions at rates higher than any government and improving energy efficiency for the sake of their own profits. "Businesses need to deal with climate change, and they need regulatory certainty and simplicity from governments," says Charles Holliday, the chairman of DuPont...
...first four games of the season, the Harvard field hockey team was held to just a single shot on goal last night, as it was shut out by the fifth-ranked Huskies from the University of Connecticut. The Crimson (3-2, 0-1 Ivy) got off to a slow start, surrendering five goals in the first half. But Harvard came back stronger in the second half, letting in just a single shot thanks to defensive adjustments and a change in attitude. “[In the second half] we stepped up and played a little looser and were able...
Among the stately high ceilings and rare books collections of Houghton Library’s Edison-Newman Room, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage read select poems evoking images of his native English landscape before a packed audience last night. Speaking some lines with slow, measured syllables and others with rapid, beat-like inflections, Armitage led his audience to laugh at his unexpected images, tap their fingers to the beat of his words, and lean forward to catch his every fading syllable. “Simon’s poetry behaves characteristically in a very recognizable geography of everyday life...
Although today Harvard Square looks like an outdoor version of a Jersey mall (just replace the mafia housewives with a horde of slow-walking tourists), it wasn’t always this way—and most Cantabrigians don’t need a book to tell them that. But the arrival of “Harvard Square: An Illustrated History Since 1950”, by Mo Lotman, has afforded long-term residents a unique opportunity to revisit—and scrutinize—the gentrification they’ve experienced over their lifetimes. “I was definitely...
...often portrayed in your press. (We have to recycle the dollars we earn from trade somewhere, and your Treasury market remains the largest and most liquid in the world. Plus, we, like the Japanese before us, have no real interest in seeing your interest rates rise and growth slow, particularly not now, and that's what would happen if we went on a T-bill buying strike.) But holding your debt does give us leverage, and we have some decisions to make now. Specifically, we'd like to diversify our purchases because the dollar is getting weaker...