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...Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation, just about everyone is trying to diagnose and treat Harvard’s political crisis. One prominent viewpoint prescribes a sort of University senate, whereby the University faculty— and not just each individual one—would have a means to assert its views. This institutional innovation, its supporters claim, would have the double-benefit of preventing overreaching by the president or by any single faculty in university-wide matters...
...along with fellow driver Sarah Kennifer, Keyser had been working hard to bring the team together and prepare it for intercollegiate play. Over intersession, the team traveled to Puerto Rico to battle more colleges. The games were played under different rules and were much more physical, but the players assert that they were an effective way to train for the start of the regular season...
...From defense strategy to economics, Kennedy sought to re-assert American dominance,” Yoo wrote. “In nuclear matters especially, Kennedy refused to share the authority or responsibility for decisions, instead choosing to centralize authority in Washington...
...President and disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff? Bush "saw me in almost a dozen settings," Abramoff wrote to a journalist friend in an e-mail that surfaced last week, "and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids." But the White House has continued to assert that the President has no recollection of ever meeting the admitted felon. Now a photograph of them together has finally come to light. The photo, taken on May 9, 2001, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, shows a bearded Abramoff in the background as Bush...
...best memories of any politician I have ever met," Abramoff mused in the e-mail last month, adding that, He "saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids." The White House, however, has continued to assert that the President had no recollection of ever meeting Abramoff. When TIME reported in January that it had viewed unpublished photographs of Abramoff with Bush, aides responded that the pictures meant nothing since the President is photographed with thousands of supporters and White House visitors every year...