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...sophistication of Obama's politics has finally caught up to the opposition: he will offer them compromise and lacerate them when they refuse to play. I suspect he'll be successful at this. But absent a responsible opposition party, we'll still be left with a crippled democracy, lacking all ability to address our most serious problems. That is not a recipe for continued success in a competitive world...
...gurus, and policy experts. With BP and Ford’s blessing, the explicit mission of Princeton’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative is to “lead the way to a compelling and sustainable solution of the carbon and climate problem.” With Harvard conspicuously absent from the race, these other schools are going all in with clean technology, betting that they will attract millions of dollars in research funding and will produce the Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg of renewable energy...
...even collaborating with schools like MIT and Princeton. Ultimately, the problems of climate change and energy are so far-reaching and possibly disastrous that the brainpower and expertise of all the world’s top schools must play a part. The world cannot afford for Harvard to be absent from the fight...
...year. Much of the country is increasingly lawless and desperately poor; reserves of water, oil and cash are running dry. The groom's brother Bandar, who drove me to Taiz the next day, pointed out new roads along the way - all built with foreign donations. "The government here is absent," he said. (See pictures of conflict in Yemen...
...Absent any explicit assurances on job security, Kraft chief executive Irene Rosenfeld pledged "great respect for Cadbury's brands, heritage and people" in a statement announcing the deal. Keeping those things in mind may be more important than in most takeovers. Founded 186 years ago when John Cadbury, a Quaker, began selling tea, coffee and hot chocolate out of a store in central England, his eponymous firm enjoys an enduring popularity that distinguishes it from, say, Britain's steel manufacturers or electricity companies. Earlier this month, not far from the site of that original store in Birmingham, fans of Cadbury...