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...even if the Bears force Harvard to air the ball out, the receiving corps is ready to step up according to junior receiver Marco Iannuzzi...
Nevertheless, while the grants are a step in the right direction, Harvard’s responsibilities don’t end there. Harvard needs to bring businesses and infrastructure to ensure long-term growth. A well-cited concern of Allston residents is that Harvard will develop over commercial areas—such as the historic Barry’s Corner—without replacing them with equivalent revenue sources. The university still has a duty to show that it recognizes the needs of Allston’s economy. Additionally, it needs consider smaller but still-pressing concerns, such...
...Representing the world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, Hu took a fateful step in announcing China would cut carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. Several of the measures that Hu unveiled will have a dramatic impact, such as making 15 percent of China’s fuel come from non-fossil sources by that target date, while planting enough trees to cover what the Los Angeles Times calculated to be the entire size of Norway...
...June, the pharmaceutical industry promised to reduce Medicare prescription drug costs by $80 billion over 10 years. While a step in the right direction, this concession requires the Obama administration to oppose future cuts in drug costs. A Republican Congress forbade Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices with producers; predictably, costs remain high. Freeing Medicare to bargain with Big Pharma would save the government an estimated $90 billion annually. The Department of Veterans’ Affairs pays lower drug costs than Medicare because it is allowed to negotiate drug prices—it defies logic that one government agency...
...high-profile conference of bankers and regional finance executives. A reported 1,100 delegates crammed into the ballroom to hear her champion "commonsense conservatism" and Reaganomics and offer commentary on Asian geopolitics. But if this luncheon keynote address was the former Alaska governor's first credential-burnishing step toward a 2012 presidential bid, it was made with the pesky media well at arm's length. All press were barred from the event, reportedly at the request of Palin's camp. Details of her remarks have been pieced together from interviews with delegates who were in attendance, tweets from inside...