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...intent to protest Harvard’s response to the current drought in faculty diversity in his letter, but extended his critique to the professors who would be teaching the course, Julius LeVonne Chambers and Jack Greenberg. It was this latter part that would garner the group widespread negative attention...
Economic theory and political will, however, don't always go together. The dramatic rise in gasoline prices has caused widespread public anger, as every member of Congress who went home for the Memorial Day break is no doubt aware. Support for lowering energy prices is something that has both broad and deep support in America; it will drive voters to the ballot box. And although Warner-Lieberman, or any future cap-and-trade bill, is unlikely to hike the price of gasoline, it will surely be used as a convenient political scapegoat...
...people that the Indian state really is as bad as the Naxalites say it is. A central government committee has recommended closing the camps and disarming the special police officers, whom India's Supreme Court recently termed illegal. Salwa Judum supporters say the criticism is proof of how widespread sympathy for the Naxalites is. "Should we stop fighting terrorism?" asks Chhattisgarh opposition leader Mahendra Karma, a member of the Congress Party and a strong backer of the militia. "Even [Mahatma] Gandhi had his dissenters, and Salwa Judum, which is a peaceful movement, is facing attacks by those motivated by political...
...bail them out. As investors pulled out of the market, the Icelandic krona fell by 27% against the U.S. dollar, the cost of insuring Icelandic debt soared to record levels, and inflation surged, hitting a 20-year high of 12.3% in recent days. That bleak combination has created a widespread perception, trumpeted in the world's financial press, that Iceland is melting...
These are all achievable goals. The technologies are within reach. Yet to take them from the research phase into widespread use will require major investments, both public and private. When it comes to climate change, President George W. Bush's greatest failure is that he dithered for eight years instead of investing in new technologies for a sustainable planet...