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...house system started in the early '70s. But by early this decade, the system was highly unpopular, heavily criticized for creating inequities between the houses and letting more affluent and white students succeed at the expense of poorer minority students...
Recently in ads and in public, Democrats have been trying to tie the proposal directly to generally unpopular Gov. A. Paul Cellucci and Lt. Gov. Jane Swift and make the question a referendum on their leadership...
...bear market, funds with a small asset base can hold an advantage over their larger counterparts. A smaller fund can trade stock and bet on up-and-comers without influencing the market. A fund with assets below $50 million raises the question of why it's so unpopular. But there are always strong performers that should not be overlooked because they're new or have done little advertising...
None of this is to say that controversial or unpopular figures should never be invited to Harvard. In fact, there should be even more, but they should face questions that are tough and fair by audiences that are well-informed. After all, universities are and should be places for the vigorous exchange of ideas, and groups such as the IOP do an invaluable service by making this possible...
Partly in response to this deadlock, NASA climatologist James Hansen last week unveiled an alternative strategy. Instead of pursuing the politically unpopular goal of drastically reducing consumption of fossil fuels, he suggests going after other greenhouse gases, such as methane, which he thinks has accounted for as much warming as carbon dioxide in the past century, even though it is present in the atmosphere in much smaller quantities...