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Walser, Fowler-Finn’s staunchest ally, is retiring at the end of her term, and some say former School Committee member Marc C. McGovern, who spoke out against renewing Fowler-Finn’s contract in 2006, could win her seat. The other candidates—Nancy Tauber, Gail Lemily Wiggins, and Stephan Malner—are backed by Walser, and are likely to support the superintendent...
Undergraduates have long been some of Harvard’s staunchest environmental advocates, and this role has greatly expanded in recent years. It was students who created the Sustainable Allston Group in 2003 to ensure that environmentally responsible building principles were incorporated into the development’s master plan. Their efforts resulted in President Lawrence H. Summers’ signing of the six “Sustainability Principles”—a legacy that clearly persists in the executive summary of the current draft plan...
Undergraduates have long been the University’s staunchest environmental advocates. It was students who worked to ensure the 2004 adoption of the six guiding "Sustainability Principles" for the Allston development. Soon after, students passed a referendum that called for an optional wind-energy fee to be added to their term bills. Despite a prompt veto of the measure by the University administration, students voted green again in 2006, demanding emissions reduction targets for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) through another College-wide referendum...
...instincts tell us to apply the same basic principles to racial dialogue, and in practice we usually do. Even the staunchest advocates of equal opportunity racism must admit that contemporary culture grants a special leeway to public figures who mock their own ethnic group. It is hard to imagine that a white Dave Chappelle would have much success casually tossing around the n-word on national television. Similarly, if a gentile comedian told us to “throw the Jew down the well,” it would lead to an uproar, but when Sacha Baron Cohen?...
...Kennedy and five other Democratic Senators had written Negroponte last week requesting the estimate. And Roberts, who until recently was one of the Administration's staunchest defenders on its national security performance, lately appears to be distancing himself from Bush war policies. On Thursday, for example, he criticized Administration attempts to keep classified the role Iraqi exiles played in making the case for invading...