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...benefits” of their operation, noting a possible fifty percent decrease in individual car usage if all targeted drivers—those who don’t jump behind the wheel every day— were to participate. Zipcar.com also considers public transportation a partner in their environmentally conscious crusade and places many pick-up/drop-off points near T stations...
...proposal called for $200,000 of the proceeds to be donated to a charity chosen in cooperation with the “socially conscious artist” who played at the concert...
Summers, says Elfenbein, is “conscious of a need to appear open to the response of the community” on labor issues...
...budget of his new position are still ill defined. But by last Friday the White House was loading him down with briefing books and scouting office space in the West Wing. Before he can figure out how to beat terrorism, however, he'll have to take on the turf-conscious Cabinet Secretaries and bureaucrats of the 40-plus agencies that share antiterrorism responsibility, as well as their patrons on Capitol Hill. Bureaucracies have a long history of outlasting the "czars" who are brought in to oversee them. "I know a great number of these guys who were czars--energy, drugs...
Pretty much the first thing that happened to me at Harvard was getting rejected. Like most freshmen, I applied for freshman seminars. Three professors interviewed me for a combined ten minutes, and I wrote agonizingly self-conscious answers in the blank spaces of the questionnaire. Then, on the allotted day, I walked up to the second floor of 8 Prescott St. and looked for my name on the alphabetized lists of those fortunate few who got in. Like the vast majority of applicants, my name was not on the lists. For some, rejection starts before arrival on campus: Each year...