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This May, Barack Obama will deliver his first commencement address as president. He will not journey to West Point, as Bill Clinton did for his first such oration, to prove his patriotic gratitude for the men in uniform. Nor will he return, a devoted and loyal son, to one of his almae matres, either in the Ivy League or Occidental College. He will not even patronize with his presence an institution run by the states that his federal budget will bloat with generous stimulus disbursements...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Obama and the Fightin’ Irish | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...from supporting such practices, whether directly in person or indirectly through the ballot box. In inviting a president whose recent agenda prominently has contradicted those tenets, Notre Dame intimates that the Catholic truth it purportedly upholds is malleable and appropriately sacrificed for the fleeting prestige that a presidential commencement address would confer...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Obama and the Fightin’ Irish | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...finalists—Mary C. Nash, Carolyn L. Turk, and Jeffrey M. Young—were each asked to address the same seven topics in separate, hour-long interviews...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: School Committee Screens Superintendent Candidates | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...House to act rather than draft its own bill. And there remain many holes to be filled in the House bill. The Waxman-Markey bill, for instance, doesn't tackle nuclear power, a key issue for Republicans. And it doesn't set specific timetables for greenhouse-gas reductions or address international concerns about how the U.S. would handle climate change across borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Launches Opening Gambits on Global Warming | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

...Obama told the press conference that he hoped his first meeting with Russia's President, Dimitri Medvedev, in the afternoon would address what Obama called "the drift in the U.S.-Russia relationship." "There are very real differences. I have no interest in papering these over," he said, adding that on the issue of nuclear nonproliferation, he saw one of the strongest areas of common ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Eve of G-20, Obama Promises to Listen, Not Lecture | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

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