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Susan Glisson, the executive director of Ole Miss's William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, notes that a smattering of groups working against racial strife have sprung up in recent years and that any viable candidate for student-body president must now include race reconciliation as part of his or her platform. Still, Glisson admits that racial tension "is a substantial problem...
...first announced in June—which aims to reduce Harvard’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent below 2008 levels by 2016. The target came as the chief recommendation in the report of the oft-touted Greenhouse Gas Task Force, which Faust convened last winter. Gore grabbed the national spotlight with his Oscar award-winning documentary on global warming—An Inconvenient Truth—and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to increase awareness about the impact of climate change. The University-wide target follows a series of recent, more...
...August 2007, two internal hedge funds, intended to take bets in the subprime mortage market, collapsed, despite being provided with $3.2 billion by Bear CEO James Cayne to bail out both the funds. After the collapse of the funds, Bear continued to lose money throughout the fall and winter, as the value of mortgage-related assets continued to deteriorate...
...warm up the area to a temperature at which replacement parts can be inserted. It will take another month to cool it back down, and given that CERN has pledged not to run its giant machine - which requires as much power as the entire city of Geneva - during winter months when Europe's energy needs are highest, Friday's breakdown could delay the actual smashing of atoms until early next year...
...icon. Here are four bars from Jay-Z collabo “Mr. Carter”: “I got Summer hating on me cause I’m hotter than the sun / Got Spring hating on me cause I ain’t never sprung / Winter hating on me cause I’m colder than ya’ll / And I would never, I would never, I would never fall.” Weezy’s talent on the mic is indisputable. “Tha Carter III” is backed by a roster...