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...Climate change and our energy policy should be the first concern of the next president. Richardson, who served as Secretary of Energy during the Clinton administration, has offered the boldest plan for addressing climate change. He understands the sheer magnitude of the challenge we face, and has proposed nothing short of a revolution in energy policy. He even wrote a book, “Leadership by Example,” about how to solve the climate crisis...
...retired schoolteacher and undecided voter in Haverford, has a son in Iraq. Merrit says "bringing the war to an end" is her number one issue. But at a McCain town hall, she says that his commitment to continuing the war for as long as necessary, while a cause for concern, doesn't matter to her as much as character and - this might sound familiar - change. "What I like about McCain is that I don't think he could lie," she says, adding that she is also looking for someone who doesn't "represent the old politics." On that front, however...
...Despite his campaign promise to become "the purchasing-power President" Sarkozy has thus far been unable to do much to address the primary concern of French citizens that they need more money in the face of higher prices. Economy Minister Christine Lagarde has announced that inflation in 2008 will probably exceed 2% - higher, in any case, than the government forecast of 1.6%, due to escalating prices of oil and foodstuffs. Laws passed to allow employees and businesses to sidestep France's 35-hour workweek limitation and heed Sarkozy's call to "work more to earn more" have largely been ignored...
Steinberg believes that Bush will be pressed to find ways to repair the damage. "Beyond statements of continued concern about the dangers that will be created if the radical Iranian regime acquires nuclear weapons, the U.S. Administration will be asked to consider measures that will revive the stalled sanctions regime, and to consider the possibility of military action, if all other means have been exhausted...
It’s true that the storied anti-Americanism of ivory-tower intellectuals remains prevalent; though it is subtler than right wing talk-show hosts make it out to be. Polls reveal universities to be hotbeds of both concern and vehement criticism with regard to American society and politics: a full 63 percent of our research faculties say they seriously doubt the future of their country...