Word: thingness
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...very rich are different from you and me. For one thing, their carbon footprints are bigger. Between their private jets, fleets of cars and large (often multiple) houses, the wealthy tend to suck up more than their fair share of the earth's resources. And that's not even counting the environmental impact of the businesses that built their bank accounts...
...added that he did not “see this as Harvard reneging on a promise,” as it was necessary to vacate the building for environmental reasons. “Am I happy that the Bence Building is basically vacated? No. This is not a good thing for Mass Ave., or the community, but the goal is that Harvard will bring retail back there,” he said. “I’m going to take Harvard on its word.” -Staff writer Sofia E. Groopman can be reached at segroopm@fas.harvard.edu...
After Ginsburg described former Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist rehearsing to swear her in, Greenhouse said, “I think rehearsal’s a good thing when you’re swearing somebody in, right...
Despite the need for the projected revenue, opponents say legalizing pot would only add to social woes. "The last thing we need is yet another mind-altering substance to be legalized," says John Lovell, lobbyist for the California Peace Officers' Association. "We have enough problems with alcohol and abuse of pharmaceutical products. Do we really need to add yet another mind-altering substance to the array?" Lovell says the easy availability of the drug would lead to a surge in its use, much as happened when alcohol was allowed to be sold in venues other than liquor stores in some...
...thing nostalgic Democrats forget about Social Security is that it did not come in the first year of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency or even in the second. The major initiatives of the New Deal passed only after F.D.R. had convinced Americans that he had his priorities straight. His immediate attention to issues like the run on banks and sky-high unemployment gave him a congressional landslide in 1934 that ratified his 1932 victory. That's when he grew strong enough to pass his broader agenda. The best way not to "waste a good crisis" is to put the stress...