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...remarks on the subject, McElroy, a leading scientist in the study of climate change, said that the Kyoto Protocol was an ineffective solution to the threat of global warming. He said that even the countries who agreed to the treaty have not been able to meet the reduced levels of greenhouse emissions. “Despite the rhetoric, we’re not doing a very good job in Europe or in other countries to meet the challenge,” he said...
...while the panelists took the subject seriously, the talk had its light points...
...voting. The democratic ideal is that all citizens of a nation deserve a vote, regardless of their perceived competence or wisdom. It is not up to some elevated intellectual group to decide national policy or who is worthy of suffrage. That would be called oligarchy. We are all subject to the laws; we should all be free to have a say in their formation. The elitist tendencies that suggest that children cannot vote are the same tendencies that once convinced people that blacks and women were unworthy...
...criticizing HRL for bringing the subject of abortion to the fore of campus discourse. It is the right of every student group to raise awareness on issues about which they feel strongly. But we question Harvard’s unfair policy. Allowing pro-life students to opt out of this portion of their fee is fundamentally unfair, and the University should not permit...
...aimed at easing his legal troubles, including a 2003 immunity measure for top government officials that temporarily suspended the Milan case. That law was overturned, and the trial resumed in April. The latest verdicts may not change many minds in Italy, but perhaps they can start to change the subject. - By Jeff Israely Saddam's Supplier? THE NETHERLANDS Police arrested businessman Frans van Anraat on charges of war crimes and involvement in genocide for his alleged role in supplying thousands of tons of raw materials for mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's regime between 1984 and 1988. Prosecutors said...