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...said Kelley, who noted that in her area, staff workers, who have wide-ranging grasps of administrative expenses and operations, had not been consulted at all during the planning for this past year’s cost reductions. “I wish that Harvard would act in a more forthright manner,” she said...
...part of her new job, this well-mannered career academic has to bully some of the world's most powerful men. Shortly after Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act last October, Warren was appointed by Senate Democrats to do one of the most difficult, or perhaps impossible, jobs in Washington: chairing a bipartisan panel tasked with scrutinizing how the Treasury Department - first George W. Bush's, now Barack Obama's - is spending the $700 billion in federal money intended in large part to shore up failing banks. The role has Warren monitoring the decisions of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...
...refuses - as it is expected to do - all the mighty U.S. military can do under the resolution is inform the U.N. and stand aside while diplomats try to force any nation resupplying the ship to allow inspectors aboard. Pyongyang has said any interception of its shipping would be an "act of war," and declared over the weekend that it would "respond to sanctions with retaliation" including "unlimited retaliatory strikes" against South Korea if it helps apply U.N. sanctions...
...NCRI for historical reasons, he says, the NCRI is largely an irrelevancy these days. "Tehran uses it as a scarecrow with its own change-hungry public, while Western nations use it as a way of rewarding or punishing Iran," Roy says. "More or less consideration given to [NCRI] can act as punishment or reward for Iranian action. Meanwhile, the group itself does little beyond grow weaker with time...
...current level of antipathy toward IRIB, however, is unprecedented and proving worrisome to even staunch allies of Supreme Leader Khamenei. Ali Larijani, the current Speaker of parliament who formerly headed IRIB, recently said that "the IRIB should not act in a way that provokes people." Such rare criticism, especially from a key political figure who backed Ahamdinejad's electoral win on cue from Khamenei, suggests the delicate fissures within the regime's backing for the President...