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...menace and unease. If you go into an underground train in London—probably anywhere, but chiefly in London—there’s that sense of almost entering a ghostly dimension. People are very still and quiet; they don’t exchange many pleasantries. The speaker is a passenger with a slight sense of strangeness, but he could be somebody about to do something destructive on the train...
...story, "Exelon Head Speaks on Energy," stated that wind energy is twice as expensive as nuclear energy. In fact, the speaker did not state that wind power costs twice as much to produce as nuclear power on a kilowatt-hour basis, but that wind energy costs twice as much as nuclear when considering the cost of abating a ton of carbon dioxide...
...important things.” Hosted by the Harvard College Women’s Center and co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, Sara E. Jobin ’91 spoke with a group of students over lunch as part of the Alum-inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna to campus each semester. Jobin—who is also this year’s Clifton Visiting Artist, a position given by the Office for the Arts and reserved for a young female artist—talked about her professional life and based discussion...
...Nigeria, “the film showed what the Civil Rights Movement did not have time to accomplish—solving economic problems in the black community, especially poverty.” Similarly, Lawrence Hamm, leader of the Newark-based People’s Organization for Progress and a speaker on the panel, said, “We have changed the political structure, but we have not changed the fundamental condition of the people.” The presentation was part of a series of talks based on a variety of media—authors’ readings, lawyers?...
...trying to woo wavering Republicans with a revised version of the bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Senate counterparts risked souring the moderate Democrats she can't afford to lose. The bill the Senate passed included a $100 billion extension of unrelated tax benefits - provisions like tax breaks for business R&D and alternative energy and money to prevent more Americans from being hit by the Alternative Minimum Tax - that the Blue Dogs have fought for years. This increasingly powerful bunch of Democrats isn't opposed to tax cuts, but they are against passing them without offsetting the costs...