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McCarthy agrees that there is an element of apathy on Harvard’s campus today. "Political activism always moves in waves and ebbs and flows. It’s really virtually impossible to have any social movement sustain itself forever," he says in reference to what he calls "progressive" activism. McCarthy says that "conservative" activism has actually experienced a resurgence during the Bush administration...
...aware that there are several Harvard alumni who live in the building,” he said. Passing planes and helicopters are not an unusual part of the view from Shemtov’s window in the Belaire, which was built to sustain impact, he added. “The one thing that this does demonstrate is that we need to re-assess the laws pertaining to the flight zones surrounding this building,” Shemtov said. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
Half a dozen participants, including Harvard janitor Bedardo A. Sola, stood on a street corner near the building—wielding signs and informing passersby of their cause—during the day and slept in the Burlington Commons at night, with only water to sustain them...
...Scorsese, surely the American cinema's most vigorous classicist, is also the unrivaled master of movie exposition. Nobody can get a movie going like him, and sustain it with camerabatics and an attention-deficit editing ethic. The problem with his films, if it is one, is that they often describe a degeneration based on repetition. His characters' tragic flaw is that their crimes are their obsessions; they become addicted to expressing the beast within themselves. This makes for explosive moments in an anti-dramatic trajectory, so his his films don't build, they simply accrue - and then collapse, like...
...insurance companies found they invested extensively in global oil and mining companies such as ExxonMobil, Elf Aquitaine and Rio Tinto. "There's a real disconnect between the investment side and the acknowledgment of climate change," says Matthew Arnold, who tracks the U.S. insurance industry as a director of consultants Sustainable Finance. Insurers, however, insist that that's changing. With the growth of carbon-trading markets in Europe and the U.S., and the increasing likelihood that businesses' carbon footprints are likely to be taxed in the future, polluting companies and certain sectors are beginning to look like less attractive investments...