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There has been speculation among media outlets that Bernanke is eyeing the chairmanship of the Federal Reserve and this appointment might be a stepping stone taken in hopes of succeeding current Chairman Alan Greenspan, who intends to vacate the job at the end of his current term on Jan. 31, 2006. However, Mankiw said that these conclusions are premature...
Bollinger and the committee he appointed have drawn criticism from professors outside of New York City. Harvard’s Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—a vocal critic of the MEALAC department and a pro-Israel advocate—took issue with the committee’s findings...
...statement, Vice President for Government, Community, and Public Affairs Alan J. Stone said, “Making sure that Harvard works to improve the undergraduate experience has been a key priority for President Summers since he first arrived on campus...
...Massachusetts insists that Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford and the Army's research center in Natick are ideal for studying the high-tech hardware Rumsfeld covets, since they're close to science centers like M.I.T. The state also hopes that one of its hired guns, former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon, will give it an edge because of another job he once had: he chaired the base-closing commission in 1995, the last time the mothballs started flying. --By Douglas Waller
Inflation has been dead so long that even a warning from Alan Greenspan inspires skepticism. "I don't think we're going to have an inflation problem," said economist Robert Brusca of FAO Economics following the Federal Reserve Chairman's words of concern accompanying a hike in short-term interest rates last week. "I think we have a Fed-credibility problem." Brusca is more worried about nascent signs of weakness, including eroding consumer confidence. A slowdown would quell inflationary pressures quickly, and one theory is that Greenspan's warning was part hype to justify jacking up rates so that...