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...since then, Chivian and Cizik have been traveling the country to plead for unity in the fight against global climate change. Chivian stressed that global climate change was more than just an environmental issue. “Many people do not realize that climate change is a public health problem,” Chivian said. “Human beings are an inseparable part of nature. The disconnect that people feel with the natural world lies underneath their indifference to global warming.” Cizik cited what he called “an illogical syllogism?...
...University was not at fault if there was any type of infestation,” said Mellone, who added that he has not noticed a growing rat problem. “I don’t think it’s anything except sour grapes on the part of people who like to raise issues. [The complaints] are way out of proportion to what is going...
...problems I deal with are incredibly challenging, but the answers usually involve reliance on some combination of hard work, determination, and creative thinking, qualities that Harvard seniors have been refining through four years of long days and late nights spent producing papers and leading student organizations. Educational inequity is a deep and serious problem, and in the long term the systems that educate American children are going to need a lot of help. But, right now, these children need us, as many of us as they can get, to do what we can: to dive in and get working...
...Chávez is a very Latin American problem. Like his hero Simón Bolívar, he thinks he is indispensable to Venezuela, an oil-rich country that has terrible internal problems, most notably a lack of durable democratic institutions and entrenched economic inequality. In fact, he was originally an army paratrooper who became famous in 1992 when he attempted to overthrow the constitutional government in a failed coup d’etat. Old habits die hard...
...should do the talking for the U.S.? This could be a problem area. Obama's planned point man on Iran is Dennis Ross, who served as Middle East envoy to both George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Ross takes a hawkish view of dealing with Iran, emphasizing the coercive diplomacy of sanctions. Ross himself was not available for interviews, but his position on Iran is well known. He has long argued for ramping up economic pressure on Tehran, telling TIME in 2007 that "if Iran thinks it is actually going to be cut off economically, which has not been...