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Environmentalists can't decide whether to celebrate the recession or dread it. Conventional wisdom holds that the green movement will be one of the first casualties of the downturn. "The clean-tech industry is at risk because of a real lack of access to capital," says Paul Maeder, who helps oversee clean-tech investments for Highland Capital, the global venture-capital firm he co-founded. But in his next breath, Maeder explains why the current economic mess may end up being a boon to environmentalism - by forcing change. "We're in a crisis because of oil prices and climate change...
...disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power—and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of the condition...
...part of the College’s preparations to “renew” its 12 upperclass Houses, the House Program Planning Committee—including student representatives—recently ventured out of the Harvard bubble in search of sage wisdom from Yale and Princeton. This trip, along with the distribution of a student survey and the creation of the HPPC in the first place, deserves praise, since such actions demonstrate the administration’s interest in obtaining some level of student input during the House renewal process. Yale and Princeton both embarked on large-scale construction...
This election season, the conventional wisdom no longer seems to apply, especially with regard to the perennial “battleground states.” Traditionally thought to include Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida, recent polling indicates that traditionally-red states, like North Carolina and Virginia, could come into play, possibly contributing the deciding electoral votes to Democratic candidate Barack Obama...
...Whichever candidate wins on Tuesday (although I have my fingers firmly crossed for one of them), I urge him to heed the wisdom of Kennedy and Roosevelt. Spending $500 billion on a missile defense system may no longer be advisable, but surely spending $5,000 on modern dance...