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...Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) landmark decision on Friday to set in motion the process of regulating greenhouse gases had a little bit of the sardonically threatening spirit of that magazine cover. Concluding a scientific review initially ordered by a two-year-old Supreme Court case, the EPA issued its long-awaited "endangerment finding," formally declaring that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases are pollutants that threaten public health and welfare. Under the Clean Air Act, that finding means that the EPA has a responsibility to address the damage caused by greenhouse gases, possibly through direct regulation...
...After effectively mocking Faust’s own “green” initiative, SLAM unconditionally demanded that Faust meet with them within the next two weeks and rescind all layoffs of university employees since October 2008. This hyperbole, rudeness, and radicalism runs contrary to the spirit of academic debate, and Harvard’s students and administration should reject both SLAM’s tactics and its untenable message...
This week's tea parties afforded the governor an opportunity to tap into the Texas spirit of independence, a surefire crowd-pleaser in the reddest of red states, one with a profound sense of its own identity, independent history and anti-Washington sentiment. "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression," Perry told roaring tea-party crowds in Austin and Fort Worth, quoting Sam Houston, Texas' founding father. (See pictures of a post-Dubya Crawford, Texas...
Ilya B. Leskov, a first-year student at Harvard Medical School, and Matthew D. Zimmerman ’09 were awarded the Philip Hofer Prize this month for assembling artistic and literary collections that best captured the spirit of the prize’s namesake, a former Houghton Library curator. Leskov, a Lowell House tutor, received first prize for his collection of antique maps of Paris—an assortment consisting of more than 25 maps, a substantial bibliography, and colored photographs of the maps. “I was always interested in how the city grew and evolved over...
...irritating it must have been for Sarkozy to read French press reports last month that revealed Bush's successor Obama had written a private letter to Chirac ahead of the London G-20 summit. In it, Obama tells Chirac he anticipates their chances to "collaborate together in a spirit of peace and friendship in order to build a safer world." Most French pundits interpret the letter as Obama giving Chirac credit for correctly opposing the Iraq war as a looming strategic and diplomatic calamity - a position Obama shared. According to French press reports, Sarkozy was livid at seeing the star...