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Former University President Lawrence H. Summers was the focus of a luncheon event at Harvard Hillel yesterday, giving attendees a chance to question the former U.S. Treasury Secretary about hot-button economic issues in advance of today’s national elections. Summers, who currently serves as an advisor to Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, made no secret of his allegiances when asked to offer his opinions on the platforms of the two major party candidates. “I can only answer that question with no pretense of objectivity,” Summers said at one point, drawing laughter...
McCain campaign advisor Charles Black has been touting a much closer race - reportedly within one or two points - based on internal party polling in Iowa. But J. Ann Selzer, a leading local pollster whose company Selzer & Co.Inc of Des Moines, does the Register's poll, is skeptical. "I say show me the numbers. It sounds impossible to me," says Selzer. "I would question who are they counting as a likely voter, whether they are weighting by party ID and those weights might be outweighed. There just isn't a scenario that makes it look like this is very close...
...light of Bush’s abysmal performance, a collection of 180 groups in science, business, and academia came together last Friday to implore the next president to select a cabinet-level science advisor by inauguration day. Such a move would be a promising start and presage an administration that viewed science as a tool, not something to be feared...
...Tribe, who says Obama was the most impressive student he has seen in his four decades on the faculty, remains an Obama advisor. And Newton N. Minow, a prominent and well-connected Chicago lawyer who had led the Federal Communications Commission under President John F. Kennedy ’40, proved to be an invaluable mentor for Obama during his early political runs...
...student asked the former national security advisor how experienced members of the current Bush administration made serious foreign policy errors...