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Samantha Power, a professor at the Kennedy School and human rights advocate, has resigned as a top foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview with a British newspaper on Friday. Power’s statement, which she made to a reporter for The Scotsman, led to swift condemnation from the Clinton campaign and a disavowal from Obama. Power has since apologized to both campaigns, saying that the remarks were “inexcusable” and “at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration...
...staff to former University President Lawrence H. Summers when he served as secretary of the treasury from 1999 to 2001. “Sheryl is an extraordinarily capable, organized, decisive, and caring person who will do great things for Facebook,” said Summers, who served as the advisor for Sandberg’s undergraduate honors thesis in Economics when she was at the College. University spokesman John D. Longbrake, who knew Sandberg when he worked in communications at the Treasury, said he agreed, saying that he thought “very highly” of Sandberg...
...apparently the very best place on Earth to study the total solar eclipse in 2006. The unprecedented visit by NASA scientists was recorded and the film is now going to be shown to the public across North Africa according to Robert Senseney, a senior State Department science advisor, who says there are a series of other private and governmental exchanges in the works...
Bill James, the legendary baseball stat guru and godfather of the data-driven "Moneyball" movement that has changed how front offices evaluate players, has written a new book, The Bill James Gold Mine 2008. TIME's Sean Gregory caught up with James, now a senior advisor to the world champion Boston Red Sox, from the team's spring training facility in Fort Myers, Fla., to talk about the state of analytics in baseball, the Roger Clemens steroids controversy, and whether a certain New York Yankees star looks like Henry Fonda...
...South Carolina, he dismissed the advice of his advisor, former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley, to aggressively attack McCain as a Washington insider with a spotty conservative record, a decision that may have cost Huckabee that primary. When the New York Times reported rumors that McCain had conducted a "romantic" relationship with a lobbyist, Huckabee refused to make an issue of it, despite the obvious opportunity...