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...Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this year that "Iran has both long-term strategic and short-term tactical interests in Afghanistan and is not content with merely maintaining the status quo." Its desire to undermine "Western influence in Afghanistan" had led it to provide "select Afghan insurgents with lethal aid," he said...
...incident of national significance," thus enacting a disaster-response plan headed by then Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, he did not invoke any powers under the National Emergency Act. This is common practice; natural disasters are usually declared state emergencies by the acting governor, who then requests federal aid. (See a bin Laden family photo album...
...used to bring a copy of that 401(k) study to all his meetings; chief regulator Cass Sunstein co-authored a book called Nudge that's all about defaults and other noncoercive policies that can promote desired behaviors. The Administration has pushed one nudge after another, from simplified financial-aid forms after studies showed they could increase college-attendance rates to automatic savings plans for small businesses. It even doled out our payroll-tax cuts in the stimulus bill by decreasing our weekly withholding rather than cutting us big lump-sum checks, because the research suggested we'd be less...
...approved legislation last night that would partner the Committee with Harvard Student Agencies to provide shuttle service to and from Yale during the Harvard-Yale Football Game. The UC also supported creation of a new ad hoc student committee to discuss education and other topics such as financial aid for students...
...remaining $110 million deficit. Still, Smith noted that FAS received about $33 million in unrestricted gifts from two anonymous donors this past year, while also making a one-time withdrawal of $20 million in cash from its endowment to help offset the increased costs of the middle-income financial aid initiative. Both funding sources represent isolated influxes into the annual budget, and will not be reported in subsequent years, meaning that the long-term deficit that Smith has emphasized in a series of faculty meetings and community gatherings remains a concern. But Smith wrote in the report Friday that...