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University President Drew G. Faust spoke in favor of increased funding for the biomedical sciences before a U.S. Senate committee this morning...
Nine days after abandoning his post as Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, R. Nicholas Burns spoke to a small crowd of students and faculty at the John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum last night on the next significant challenge to the State Department: Iran. Burns was introduced by Ashton B. Carter, chair of the international relations department at the Kennedy School and co-author of “Plan B for Iran: What If Nuclear Diplomacy Fails?” Burns, though, highlighted the absolute necessity of fully pursuing a diplomatic solution to conflicts between Iran, Israel, and the rest...
...scattered applause. “Is there anything you can do with discretionary funds from the presidential fund....They’re getting pasta every day. They can’t even stomach it.”Faust avoided mention of discretionary funds in her response and instead spoke of a trade-off between keeping tuition costs down and reacting to higher food prices.“If we’re going to keep food at the same level, we’re going to have to figure out how to channel moneys from other uses into the food...
...became a Christian himself. Jonathan Merritt, a seminary student with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is familiar with that paradigm. "I was an enemy of the environment," he says. "I approached it with disdain. And then I was sitting in a classroom and I felt like God spoke to me and put this idea in my heart." The idea - encapsulated in the "Southern Baptist Declaration on the Environment and Climate Change" - is a strikingly potent challenge to his denomination's official stance on global warming and to his own previous scorn. Yes, he says with a chuckle, "you could...
...victory speech Sunday night, Spain's newly re-elected socialist prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, spoke of unity, claiming that "Spaniards have spoken with clarity, and they have decided to open a new era - a new era without antagonism, an era that excludes confrontation, an era that looks for agreement when it comes to affairs of State." But both the campaign that preceded the election and the results themselves suggest much the opposite - that Spain will become even more polarized between right and left than it already...