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...called into question Vice President Al Gore's commitment to the environment because of the White House's "failure to provide any leadership on the clean-air standards and on climate changes." Prior to his time with the Trust, Clapp worked on the U.S. House Budget Committee's environmental task force, where he tried, to no avail, to get the U.S. to ratify the Kyoto treaty. It has since been adopted by most developed nations...
...does what depends on which agency has the most authority for the task at hand. Paulson was the primary mover last fall in getting banks and mortgage companies to ease up on homeowners who faced foreclosure, while Bernanke dropped billions into jittery credit markets with a surprise rate cut. Geithner engineered the rescue in March of the investment bank Bear Stearns. In the summer, Paulson horsed Congress into giving him broad authority to seize troubled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac--which he ended up having to use two months later. And when the three have run into interference from...
...enchanting as the Santa’s toy workshop—hidden in the basement of Adams House. “From the street, you can look through the windows and see these massive machines with people wearing aprons bent over them, hard at work on mysterious old-timey tasks,” Jacoby says. The view from inside isn’t much different. The space smells like oil and metal, the walls are plastered with old printing projects, and the back room is brimming with brass photo plates, linocuts, and lead type in dozens of fonts, styles...
...launch of a new greenhouse gas-reduction initiative, and a celebration of Harvard’s role as an environmental leader. The University aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on campus by 30 percent by 2016. Announced in July, the initiative comes from recommendations made by the Greenhouse Gas Task Force convened last spring and co-headed by Kennedy School Professor William C. Clark. Clark said that a guest speaker of Gore’s status and the location of the event in Tercentenary Theater reflects that the issue is receiving an appropriate amount of attention from the President?...
...sheer number of objects to be moved presents a logistical challenge to the renovators. Some of the artwork requires many layers of special packaging to ensure their safety during the move, and most are placed in crates before they are transported. “It is a very daunting task,” Manoogian says. “It’s a lot of work but it’s something that they’ve been preparing for several months, if not years.”At least one student has picked up on the museum staff?...