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...emphasizes that a cooperative response to global warming is a priority worldwide. The U.S. must recognize this and practice the environmentalism that it preaches. When the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change begins in Bali on Dec. 3, I hope that President Bush is there free of the specter of Byrd-Hagel—and that Congress also recognizes the need for us take a global lead, accept an emissions cap, and make sure that emissions reduction happens domestically...
...other threats, such as that of social rejection, elicit a similar psychological immune response - except, intriguingly, in depressed people - and he thinks that it's a mechanism that healthy people are probably employing constantly, as a way of fending off a lifetime of serious misfortunes: not just the looming specter of death, but also the fact that you're not going to get that promotion, or that your spouse is cheating on you, or that your kid is on drugs. "It's very difficult to keep people in bad moods, and I think this is one of the reasons...
...before. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after stepping up defiance of U.S.-led efforts to compel Iran to halt enrichment, this week appeared to gain greater domestic influence over the issue with the replacement of Iran's pragmatic top nuclear negotiator by a key Ahmadinejad ally. After President Bush invoked the specter of World War III to press the urgency of stopping Iran, the Administration followed up with another round of punitive measures...
Like the ghost in Harvard’s attic, Yale is making unfamiliar threatening noises, creaking the floorboards and moaning something that sounds a little like “McLeooooood.” The Crimson isn’t going to confront the specter until it has to, at the Yale Bowl...
...formation, moving up defender Kwaku Nyamekye to forward and placing the impetus of the attack on the Bears’ visibly tired back line.Encouraged by dazzling play from young midfielders Im, Alex Chi, and second-half substitution Allen Padua, Harvard quickly went on the offensive, undeterred by the specter of the scoreboard.Winning individual battles through concise dribbling and clever through balls, the Crimson capitalized on a Mike Fucito corner kick in the 83rd minute, as Hoff flicked the ball forward to newly entrenched Nyamekye for the equalizer. “We were down with 15 minutes...