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Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (EESA), which was passed by Congress in October 2008 and which set up the $700 billion bank-bailout fund, the Treasury Department has the ability to officially deem which firms are receiving exceptional assistance from the government. At issue is executive pay. EESA requires the Treasury Department to monitor executive pay at all the firms receiving government assistance. Last summer the Treasury said firms that are deemed to be receiving exceptional aid from the government would be subject to a pay czar. The office, later filled by high-profile lawyer Kenneth Feinberg...
...anticipation of obtaining licenses that would allow them to legally marry their partners. While this is a significant step in the fight for marriage equality nationwide, some members of the Harvard community have questioned D.C.’s ruling in light of the federal Defense of Marriage Act...
...What is curious about [the ruling] is that this has been done under a Congress still in support of the Defense of Marriage Act,” she said. “D.C. is not a state, it is a federal territory, which means there is a direct conflict between what the D.C. standard is and what federal...
...causes of terrorism. However, American counterterrorism policy must not be a zero-sum game. We must pursue both objectives—addressing terrorism’s causes and protecting ourselves from threats already in motion—with utmost vigor. Obama’s decision to reauthorize the Patriot Act validates its crucial role as an integral element of this effort...
Though portraits are animated only in the world of Harry Potter, this apparent disappearing act was the second of its kind this year. In September, the portrait of former University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, was missing—an absence pointedly observed by faculty meeting attendee and former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...