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Most hopefully, McCain was realistic about the need for the U.S. to take the lead internationally on cutting carbon emissions, even without other major industrializing nations. "If the efforts to negotiate an international solution that includes China and India do not succeed, we still have an obligation to act," he said. That was a remarkably un-Bush thing to say - the President has long refused to engage seriously on an international climate change regime unless China and India take on emission-reduction goals too - and indeed, it was McCain's implicit criticism of Bush that most stood out in this...
...team rebounded from a slow start in Providence on Saturday to finish in a three-way tie for first at the close of the first day of competition.And it all turned around when Harvard upset the favored Yale team, giving the squad the confidence it needed to succeed in the remainder of the weekend’s races.“The turning moment was when we beat Yale, a pretty good team, on Saturday,” senior Elyse Dolbec said. “We won the rest of our races [on Saturday] and found ourselves in a qualifying...
...leading the specialist team of doctors and therapists looking after Elizabeth Fritzl and her family, said they have all been given separate rooms and have their personal belongings and toys with them. "It is a question of restoring their spatial orientation step by step. We are convinced this will succeed in the next few weeks," he said...
...palpable good that Wright has done his community, his parishioners have paid a subtle price, especially the younger, poorer, less educated ones. When he spreads canards like the one about the AIDS conspiracy, he is telling them that white power is so overwhelming that it's almost impossible to succeed. The success of Obama's candidacy sends the very opposite message, which may be why Wright is so threatened by it. If Obama wins the presidency-if we can break past the barrier of race-there won't be much of a market for oppression-thumping orators like Jeremiah Wright...
...instant. And while nothing can quite compare to the beautiful lie that Gibbons told on “Sour Times” (“Nobody loves me, it’s true / Not like you”), “Third” manages to succeed in an entirely new, albeit startling way.With a new attitude comes a new aesthetic, and it’s remarkable to hear how the band has matured since trip-hop’s heyday. While that music ultimately strove to bring a sort of hypnotic order to a combination of sampled and original...