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...Gordon—who answered most of the community’s concerns about Harvard’s actions—said that “we actually view the tone and the relationship in Allston as pretty good,” drawing snorts, scoffs, and chuckles from the packed audience...
...fittest. But, University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus Gillian Beer, spoke last night of a creative and empathetic Darwin who wondered at the inner lives of oysters. Beer’s talk, entitled “Darwin and the Consciousness of Others,” acknowledged the popular view that Darwin is “the man who banished mind from the universe.” But, instead of a man who saw only mechanistic natural selection, Beer said that Darwin was preoccupied with similarities of consciousness between creatures. He believed that his greatest discovery was that all animals were...
...foreclosures, financial markets re-regulation, the budget, universal health care and green jobs. The key in opposing the stimulus, Cantor says, was offering a credible alternative. "Our members in the House really rallied around a forward-looking, smarter, simpler stimulus plan," Cantor says. "We took a very positive, constructive view on where the stimulus should be, and when the bill that rolled through the House missed the mark the way it did, it demonstrated that the thought behind the majority's bill was not to be a stimulus bill; it was to be a spending bill. And going forward...
Representative Eric Cantor has a giant mounted photo propped like a canvas on a chair in the corner of his office in the Capitol. The image seems like an innocently iconic one - a shot of the National Mall from Congress - until a staffer explains that it's the view from the Virginia Republican's old office when the GOP controlled the House, and it's there to serve as a daily reminder of what he's working toward: regaining the majority...
...much of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.) But he also won't simply roll over for Obama's agenda. In offering constructive criticism and viable alternatives, negotiating when possible and walking away when necessary, Cantor believes he's found the path back to that office with the spectacular view of the Mall...