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EnergySolutions has invested heavily in reputation-building, including millions for naming rights to the basketball stadium that hosts the Utah Jazz. The company has also contributed to Senators and Congressman who wield power over the nuclear industry. EnergySolutions spent more than $1 million on lobbying in 2007 and its political action committees have donated more than $145,000 to House and Senate campaigns since 2005. (The company has operations in South Carolina and its political action committees and employees have given at least $45,800 to that state's senior Senator Lindsey Graham since 2005.) In Utah, the EnergySolutions...
...Watch Reagan wield God bless America at the 1980 convention
...monumentally paradoxical that campaigns for independence and sovereignty are finalized with the erection of borders and the drawing of demarcation lines. But within the system of representational geopolitics that we have, power requires a discrete entity that can itself wield power. A discrete entity does not, however, necessarily require cultural assimilation; were the region to proclaim its collective autonomy, each nation would have to join willingly and in a way that respects the linguistic, ethnic, economic, and political diversity that the region contains...
...Though devotees crave great driving, everyone knows there's more to F1 than that. In fact, motor racing leaves many sports lovers cold because all they see is the cars, not a genuine human-to-human contest. Tiger Woods and Roger Federer wield state-of-the-art equipment that may be subtly different from what their opponents use, but it's not better (nor particularly high-priced). In F1, however, some cars are indisputably better than others. Recently, those superior cars have belonged to Ferrari and McLaren, and no matter how good a driver you may have been...
...hope that this continues once he begins his work with administrators, whose views are likely quite different than this. As the sole voice of student perspective, he bears a particularly heavy obligation to lobby extensively on behalf of the student population. Most notably, we hope that Sundquist will wield his influence in the area of the Ad Board’s readiness to resolve far too many student issues with a mandatory year of leave. This policy is ridiculous. It constitutes a one-size-fits-all solution to a wide range of problems, from academic transgressions to sexual and behavioral...