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...Peace Prize between Gore and the IPCC will increase the pressure on leaders who refuse to believe that immediate action on climate change is necessary. The Bush administration in particular needs to be pushed to take action on climate change. The United States emits nearly 25 percent of the world??s greenhouse gases. Without American participation, worldwide efforts to reduce greenhouse gases amount to little. Thankfully, Gore’s prize is already forcing many in Washington—including 2008 presidential candidates—to confront the realities of climate change. It may seem unconventional to award...
...September, Suzanne Kriegsman, the project’s manager, announced to a library staff e-mail list last week. That number is still rising as the scanning of Harvard’s library collections continues. The initiative is part of Google’s larger objective to digitize the world??s libraries into a widely accessible and easy-to-search form. According to Kriegsman’s e-mail, which was obtained by a Crimson reporter, eight libraries at Harvard have finished scanning their books. Those libraries are Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Gutman Library, Loeb Library, Arnold Arboretum...
...recent undergraduate alumni, Elizabeth R. Whitman ’06 of Lewis Albert and Kristen D. O’Neill ’07 of Porter Grey, stand as CEOs of design labels that have risen in considerable prominence in the fashion world??a prominence so extreme that they refused comment to their alma mater’s newspaper. (Because of PR constraints and commitments to other magazines, neither would grant interviews for this article...
...white T-shirt. Popular T-shirt messages can range from the poetic to the political. These days, students can pick up a cause like they pick up laundry, with T-shirts meant to support Darfur (“Save Darfur”), Obama (“BaRock My World??), and awareness about AIDS (the newly-popular “HIV-Positive” tees). But sometimes, casual campaigning can underplay the seriousness of an issue. “I get mad when I see people wearing shirts of Mao Zedong,” says Justine S. Chow...
...hostile criticism that he used in his speech only served to chill future prospects for such engagement: the ceremony of the day was not about an exchange between faculty and students. It was about a University leader who pledged to “recognize our accountability to the wider world??—a wider world that includes students. Though an august institution, Harvard still needs constant reminding of the central role that students play in its present and future. Petersen’s choice to use polemical, inflammatory, and divisive language on a day meant to celebrate...