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...Developing nations make the point that they're not responsible for the vast majority of carbon dioxide hanging around in the atmosphere-which was put there by Western countries during their own development over the past 150 years. They argue that their own per capita-emissions rates are still far lower than those of the West, and that, therefore, climate change isn't their responsibility. But future global warming will hinge on how we deal with future carbon emissions-most of which will come from developing Asia. The center of gravity of climate-change politics has moved to China, India...
...coaxing the inner beauty out of moribund folk-song fodder like Five Hundred Miles or Fire and Rain, which he performs with spellbinding verve, Ponnudorai drew on the vast musical vocabulary amassed during his barroom years, and used it to execute the material with arresting freshness. His new solo act emerged in 2000; effortlessly spanning genres and periods, and quoting songs within songs, it is perfectly attuned to ears raised on unfettered sampling, but beneath the complexity is the sincerity of a man celebrating all that is musical and the simple fact of being alive. This is the combination that...
...tone of the conservative movement must change if we are to attract new blood in preparation for 2008 and inspire hope for the future. The Salient, unfortunately, only contributes to this negative perception by publishing reactionary and fringe ideas that distract from the larger political discourse and embarrass the vast majority of campus conservatives. Jeffrey Kwong ’09 is a government and East Asian languages and civilizations concentrator in Winthrop House. He is the president of the Harvard Republican Club, vice president of Harvard Right to Life, and an associate editor for The Harvard Salient...
...divisive and complex as the Iraq war has been, health care reform promises to be an even bigger challenge, in part because of its vast expense, but more so because of the polarizing impact it continues to have on the country. A member of the coalition, former Republican Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, compared the challenge of reform to the bipartisan efforts made on civil rights in the 1960s and the environment in the 1970s. Baker knows Washington's political culture has changed for the worse since he retired several years ago, so while his description...
...Some of that car-burning did take place in the vast housing projects that ring most French cities, but the vast majority of those suburbs have remained relatively calm since Sunday, even as youths from France's more well-heeled cities went berserk. That restraint in the projects wasn't out of any respect for the President-elect, however...