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Donovan, who also earned graduate degrees in public administration and architecture from Harvard, said that his time in Cambridge helped him understand the connections between housing and other policy concerns...
...this week,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “I was most impressed with the increase in effort over last weekend[’s scrimmage]. Part of the challenge of having a young team is getting them to work hard and to understand that they’re capable of more than they think they are—and that was good...
...easy to understand why Obama is promising to preserve the employer-based system even in the face of higher costs and fewer benefits. It could be political suicide to tell the millions of Americans who get insurance through their jobs the painful truth: under the reform proposals, even if you don't like what you have, you might still have to keep...
...going to have to work on those folks. But understand there's also another myth that we have to dispel, and this one is far more dangerous because we're all somewhat complicit in it. It's far more dangerous than any attack made by those who wish to stand in the way progress -- and that's the idea that there is nothing or little that we can do. It's pessimism. It's the pessimistic notion that our politics are too broken and our people too unwilling to make hard choices for us to actually deal with this energy...
...seeing a convergence. The naysayers, the folks who would pretend that this is not an issue, they are being marginalized. But I think it's important to understand that the closer we get, the harder the opposition will fight and the more we'll hear from those whose interest or ideology run counter to the much needed action that we're engaged in. There are those who will suggest that moving toward clean energy will destroy our economy -- when it's the system we currently have that endangers our prosperity and prevents us from creating millions of new jobs. There...