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...Above all, the rage expressed by alienated youths dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. "It's like a forest that's dried out," says Malik Boutih, the Socialist Party national secretary on social issues. "Things heat up, a wind starts blowing, and all it takes is a spark for the whole thing...
...Green Campus Initiative (GCI) has announced a new pledge campaign that asks students, staff, and faculty members to commit to a series of energy-saving measures. If more than 50 percent of the residents and office workers in a building sign the pledge, the Green Campus Initative will buy wind energy credits to offset one-quarter of the building’s energy use. The campaign, called “emPOWER Harvard,” replaces GCI’s three-year-old “Go Cold Turkey” pledge campaign, which urged students to minimize energy consumption...
...Steele said, “but then whenever you make mistakes later you kind of know that you should be doing better, because you know that you can.” The weekend proved to be somewhat anticlimactic for the rest of the sailing team, as a lack of wind forced the cancellation of the Horn Trophy, which was scheduled to be held on Harvard’s home waters. The weekend’s spotlight, therefore, was entirely on the freshmen. “We have a very strong freshman class,” team co-captain Sloan Devlin...
Dean Simonton, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, who studies genius, creativity and eccentricity, believes it's more complicated than that. "Ambition is energy and determination," he says. "But it calls for goals too. People with goals but no energy are the ones who wind up sitting on the couch saying 'One day I'm going to build a better mousetrap.' People with energy but no clear goals just dissipate themselves in one desultory project after the next...
...been pretty frank about it. Whenever Haruki’s new book doesn’t appeal to him he says so openly and that seems to be working well,” Shibata says. Rubin translated “Murakami’s “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,” which earned him acclaim in the U.S. But Murakami has more than one translator: Alfred Birnbaum, who translated much of Murakami’s early work, and Philip Gabriel, who translated Murakami’s latest big hit in English, “Kafka...