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...international leaders were as united as the scientific community on climate change, warming might be a thing of the past. This year the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a series of reports that laid to rest any doubts that global warming is real - and outlined the frightening consequences of continued inaction. At the release of the IPCC's final summary last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon - who has made climate change a top priority of his administration - laid out the threat in stark terms. "The world's scientists have spoken clearly...
Unfortunately, the global political community is a long way from speaking with one voice on anything, and climate change is no exception. We'll know for sure next week, when environment and energy ministers from around the world meet on the Indonesian island of Bali, for the UN's climate change conference. The summit has been held nearly every year since 1992, when the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) - the document that has since guided international work on global warming - was hammered out. It was at the 1997 conference, held in Japan, that the Kyoto Protocol...
Periodically, a clandestine group of faculty members and administrators gathers in the Lamont Forum Room to adjudicate, review, and discuss. They compose the fabled paradigm of Harvard bureaucracy that is only an idea for some—evoking visions of the infamous Un-American Activities Committee—and is all too much of a reality for others. However obscure or real it seems, the Administrative Board of Harvard College (Ad Board) has been striking fear into the hearts of undergraduates since...
...working class against the excesses, injustices and inequalities of capitalism" doesn't strike much of a chord in a country where there are more self-employed workers than union members and more than 55% of adults own shares. Rudd gave the impression that under him, Labor would be as un-Labor-like as it could be without becoming the Liberal Party. The only revolution he was about to start was an educational one, and it didn't mean overthrowing the teacher class. It meant upgrading trades training and providing senior students with computers and Internet access...
Despite its ambition of bringing the three plays together, “Beckett at 100,” produced by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, always strove to maintain a certain level of this un-theatricality. Scanlan, professor of the practice of theater in the Harvard’s English department, kept the works’ original media in mind in several key decisions, like setting the stage elements in specific geometric configurations and bringing in technology as a physical presence on stage. It was Scanlan’s innovative and creative interpretation of Beckett?...