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...auteur Gabriel García Márquez described the ironies and solitudes of the land where unbelievably, “El Dorado” used to appear in maps until just over a century ago. The surreal waters of Latin America reveal two very different paths forward and today??s horizon acquires the sadly familiar shape of uncertainty. One of those paths tries to materialize El Dorado, in the form of fossil fuels rather than gold and further vanquishing democratic institutions. The other is a harder path to follow, considering that shortsighted foreign powers often advance their...
...completed and compiled. A number of Faculty meetings this fall were spent discussing the reports. And draft legislation for changes to concentrations has been considered by the Faculty Council, the governing body of FAS. But with tension still lingering between some on the Faculty and Summers, the result of today??s meeting and the six subsequent sessions this semester is difficult to predict. “The Faculty and the Faculty Council have been working through the fall to move us forward in various ways,” said Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas, a member...
Professors launched an hour-long attack on University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership at today??s Faculty meeting, and—in sharp contrast to similar sessions of the Faculty a year ago—no professors rose in Summers’ defense...
...least two of Summers’ most prominent supporters on the Faculty—Stephan Thernstrom and Ruth R. Wisse—were absent from today??s meeting...
...would be happy to pull up to the 76 or Mobil station only every other month in 100-mile-per-gallon, plug-in hybrid cars. According to a 2004 report from the Congressional Budget Office, it is estimated that a gasoline tax of 46 cents a gallon, up from today??s federal tax of 18 cents, would reduce gasoline consumption by 10 percent over the next 14 years. We would be remiss to ignore that many proposals that can make an impact now demand sacrifice from U.S. citizens—financial sacrifices and sacrifices of convenience. Bush...