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That will change only if politicians hear loud and clear that global warming matters to Americans, not just in the brand of light bulbs they buy, but where they cast their vote. The focus on individual solutions "rings hollow to a lot of people," says Jesse Jenkins, a member of the Cascade Climate Network and an environmental blogger. "The solution is to organize and organize and organize." And the agents of that change will be young people like Jenkins and Tolkan, the college-age members of the Millennial generation, born after 1980. These post Cold War kids have grown...
...well against every potential Republican competitor, the picture looks very different in Republican and swing states. Says a purple-state Congressman who is nervous about holding onto his seat if Clinton is the nominee: "She certainly will get Republicans riled up. They will not only go out and vote against her--they'll stop off at their neighbors' house along the way and drag them to the polls...
...this era of vicious partisanship America's lawmakers have proved there's still one thing Democrats and Republicans can come together to support: pork. After an overwhelming vote in the House on Nov. 6, it was expected that a united Congress would override a veto for the first time in George W. Bush's presidency. The legislation that inspired this unprecedented alliance did not involve children's health or the Iraq war but rather was a bill stuffed with new Army Corps of Engineers water projects...
...general's right to drop a slew of corruption charges against Bhutto and to keep Sharif in exile. In early October, after Musharraf was re-elected President by the Parliament and state assemblies--the opposition parties all boycotted the process--the court began hearing challenges as to whether the vote and Musharraf's candidacy were constitutional. The decision was meant to be handed down before Nov. 13, but Musharraf took no chances: one of his first acts after declaring the emergency was to depose the Chief Justice and ask 16 other judges to sign an oath supporting the emergency. Seven...
...Rules of Order were to be abandoned in favour of willy-nilly consensus building! The very purpose of any committee—to encourage safely contained confrontation—would be undermined completely if the objective suddenly became finding ways to agree about things. Worse still, a lack of vote tallies leaves some room for interpretation—those who rely on committees to make decisions for them might have to decide things for themselves. That would sink the Harvard administration once...