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Their talks with Thompson went right down to the wire. The HHS Secretary signed the deal in a marathon negotiation with Romney and Kennedy that ended on Jan. 26, 2005, his last day on the job, while his going-away party was getting under way. The agreement stipulated that the commonwealth could keep the money but only if it passed a universal-coverage...
...says. “This is for the Harvard community; it’s not just for us.”S. Adam Goldenberg ’08, the CEB’s chief executive officer, emphasizes that the board worked closely with WHRB to come to an agreement about dividing the event’s cost.“Though our budget is large, it is not unlimited,” he says.Goldenberg, who is also a Crimson editor, says that the CEB has to keep in mind its funding concerns for events in the future, and that tomorrow?...
...label as terrorists the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. He has also come out swinging on other policy matters - voicing his opposition this week to a bipartisan bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, which he says doesn't go far enough, as well as to the Peru Free Trade Agreement before Congress right now. He's also proposed legislation that would ban for two years the advertising of new drugs, and also supports a West Point-like academy for teachers and a plan to limit security contracting in Iraq...
...small beer for a country where political instability and a crushing debt load have often made investors wary. Arroyo has also made progress in tamping down the long-running insurgencies in the south. Two weeks ago, she announced that the government was close to signing a final peace agreement with the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Ricardo Saludo, Arroyo's Cabinet Secretary, says that stability and economic growth should guarantee her tenure: "As far as she's concerned, she will stay until 2010. Investors don't want to see a constitutionally elected President removed from office. And we want...
...Most Indians agree that if their country is to continue to grow, closing the massive gap between rich and poor is imperative. The calculation is not just political - the nuclear agreement stalled because the left-wing parties that support the government do not want to deal with the U.S. - but brutally practical, too. Singh has said India's greatest threat is that its low-level insurgencies will turn more deadly. India will be a true success when those in the quiet columns of dignified marchers know that its prosperity extends to them...