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...green jobs that the sector has the potential to create. At California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's climate summit on Nov. 18, Obama, in taped remarks, reaffirmed that he would hold fast to those campaign promises, starting with mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions. "This is a crucial step forward," says Linda Church Ciocci, the executive director of the National Hydropower Association...
...Whether or not the Dalai Lama decides to take that unusual step, he seems to have begun the succession process in other, more subtle ways. Senior lamas of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism now regularly attend the Dalai Lama's teachings. The Dalai Lama has arranged for the Karmapa, an important lama who escaped from a Tibetan monastery eight years ago, to be tutored in several languages, including Korean, an indication of a wider global role...
...intent on making the most of his time here. “If you are creating too quickly, you lose control; the art is not about communicating something to the world anymore.” With this in mind, he is planning his future as an artist one step at a time. He knows he has to make art, so he hopes to go on to get a Master of Fine Arts degree after graduating from Harvard, but is unsure about what will follow. Andy Warhol is the artist whom he most admires, and in his own work Martin investigates...
...we’re going to be looking into [conflict of interest policies],” Brodnicki said. “We don’t want to step on the hospitals’ toes, and it will be great to work with them to ensure some consistency...
...deputy had successfully urged Reno not to launch a seventh probe into questionable fundraising practices by Clinton in his 1996 re-election campaign, resisting pressure from Congress and DOJ career lawyers. Holder, in fact, looked like he was being groomed for the top job if Reno decided to step down before Clinton left office. Now his bright prospects dimmed. Clinton allies questioned how he could have recommended Starr to run the most threatening of all investigations of the President. (See pictures of presidential First Dogs...