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...Mach admits that her A&F collection is sadly limited to “a few of the sweatshirts.” Other recruits were similarly apathetic—there was hardly an embroidered moose in the room. But Secrest remained unfazed by Harvard’s lack of spirit. “It’s a casual brand,” he says, casually...
...Moderator Elizabeth Warren, Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, whose animated attorney-like questioning kept the panelists on their toes, ended the symposium by saying, “I think this marks the spirit of what will happen in the Faust presidency.” Meanwhile, a suited and sweatered audience in the Science Center B auditorium witnessed a symposium between notables from five different sectors of Harvard’s scientific community...
...full of trend stories about how this was going to bring back "John Wayne masculinity." The TV programmers were rerunning John Wayne westerns. Karl Rove asked Hollywood to produce a film paying tribute to post-9/11 American heroism and what came back was a film called The Spirit of America, which was all clips of old movies showcasing old American film heroes in which the Westerns were prominent examples, and in particular John Wayne in The Searchers. So we kept returning to this Cowboy and Indian mythology, and I wanted to understand why. It didn't seem like...
...IPCC tends to the conservative - so its dire conclusions are all the more authoritative and chilling. But global warming is global, and the very existence of an impartial IPCC, in the face of competing national agendas, should give us hope that we can tackle climate change with the same spirit of international objectivity...
...That spirit was sufficient to diagnose climate change, but it won't be enough to solve it - and here's where Gore has fallen short in the past. The Jeremiah of global warming proved strangely restrained on the issue during the eight years he spent as Vice President of the U.S. - eight critical years when the groundwork for preventing climate change could have been laid. He still talked about the environment, but what matters is that he spent little in the way of political capital to actually do anything about it. During the 2000 election he even ran away from...