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...power to bring talks to a standstill, as it has in past years (other countries are now treating the Bush team like an annoying houseguest that has overstayed his welcome), Obama can't be anything but vague for now. Although he sent observers to the summit, many greens wish he had deployed a high-level representative - like Vice President-elect Joseph Biden - to focus the world's attention on Poznan. As it is, the U.S. vacuum is the perfect excuse to justify the generally slow progress of the talks. Yet once Obama takes over on Jan. 20, he'll have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What to Expect from the UN Climate-Change Summit | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...Nope, I wish,” the dean responded...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Smith Struggles With Financial Crisis, Computers | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...thought of before. I realized pretty quickly stepping on the court again that rhythm was going to be something that I was going to need to focus on.”Returning from the training and approaching head coach Tommy Amaker in August, Groszyk expressed his wish to return to the squad. Amaker was happy to take Groszyk back, but told the point guard that he would need to work his way back up from JV. “It was a huge disappointment at the start of the year when the coaches said that I would need to start...

Author: By Nico S. Theofanidis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Erik Groszyk’s Long Road Back To Action | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...genre of Holocaust movies. “I think it’s a bit grand to think you can change people’s thinking altogether, but that we might add some necessary complexity to their understanding of something about which they thought they knew something is the wish...

Author: By April M. Van buren, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Defiance' Mixes History, Humanity | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Hooverness of •lack of preparedness of for war - "I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack'" - is disingenuously acknowledged by •The Onion imagines bad things happening to •response of to question about what he wished he could do over includes no mention of taking August 6, 2001, warning of imminent terrorism more seriously •responsibility for collapse of economy on watch of is awkwardly placed by on "decisions that were made...over a decade or so, before I arrived in President, during I arrived in President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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