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...duty this week was Bronxville High School in New York, an environmentally friendly school whose student faculty legislature (SFL) created a Global Warming Day based on An Inconvenient Truth. The event drew some of the top scientists around the country and one of the most infamous global warming deniers, Richard Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at MIT. "We are trying to introduce students to this idea that we don't talk about in school," said Alex Tarantino, a senior at Bronxville High School and secretary of the SFL. "We should be talking about...
...other writers have had their say. But the Oscar-nominated British writers all have long histories with the people they work with, stemming from careers that started in television and the theater. "In British film, there's a very equal and strong relationship between producers, directors and screenwriters," says Richard Curtis, writer of quintessentially British comedies like Notting Hill and Love Actually. "So nobody would ever say to Marber, 'We don't much like what you've done here, let's bring in Tom Stoppard to write a couple of gags.' It's unthinkable that the solution to a problem...
...example, 91 foreign companies chose to sell new shares on London's stock exchanges - more than four times the number of overseas listings in New York, according to consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers. London's smaller domestic business means that "if you're going to flourish, you have to look around," says Richard Lambert, director general of British business lobby group the cbi. Likewise, London is building on an already leading stake in international bank lending and over-the-counter derivatives, and foreign equity trading. Attention-getting statistics like that helped motivate nasdaq to launch a $5.3 billion hostile takeover...
...past few years. Under ceo Clara Furse - the bourse's first female boss in its 200-year history - the lse has knocked back offers from rival European operators like Deutsche Börse and Australian investment bank Macquarie. By "flushing out suitors and garnering shareholder support," says Richard Hunter, London-based head of U.K. equities at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers, Furse and the management "have played the bid game very well indeed." But the laws of capitalism dictate that the lse must have its price, and a handsome bid could yet win the day. That is, if it isn't preparing...
...portrayal of Ford's pardon of President Richard Nixon as a reflection that "mercy and healing" were very much on Ford's mind at the time. Far from an act designed to help a poor beleaguered President and heal this nation's wounds caused by the Watergate affair, the pardon was a calculated political move. The pardon blocked application of the rule of law to a President who committed criminal acts while in office and was intended to save Nixon and the Republican Party from further legal scrutiny. It will forever sully Ford's record as President. Charles Tripp Professor...