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...daughter of John F. Kennedy ’40, is rumored to be considering an offer to fill the Senate seat currently occupied by Hillary R. Clinton, according to media reports last week.New York Gov. David A. Paterson met with Kennedy last week to discuss the position and assess her potential interest in it, the reports said. Paterson will name a replacement after Clinton’s expected confirmation as Secretary of State next month.‘HERS FOR THE ASKING’Insiders say Kennedy is likely to get the job should she decide to pursue...
Like any large corporation or university, Harvard has of course suffered large losses because of the current financial crisis. The most recent estimates put the damage at around $8 billion dollars, while the New York Times has warned that substantially more might be lost from harder-to-assess investments, some of which have not been revalued since Wall Street’s crash. Such a bleak financial picture has caused talk of tightened budgets, not spending sprees...
...attacks, but in the end, Raygor said they were able to have the event with out a hitch.The morning of the wedding, after Raygor and his father, cousins, and uncle had finished setting up for the event, they decided to visit the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels to assess the damage. “There were a lot of media people and bystanders interested in seeing what was going on and how things ended up,” he said.Raygor could see burn marks on the sides of the hotels, and shattered glass was everywhere. Firefighters were till dousing areas...
...NAMI-New York City, after reading the 2006 mortality report, health workers held focus groups to assess their patients' health concerns. There were many - foremost among them, the simple desire to feel deserving of good health. "The most shocking thing was that people really wanted to be healthy but there was a disconnect," says program associate Katie Linn, who ran the focus groups. "A lot of it came down to self-worth - they didn't feel like they were worthy of taking care of themselves...
...through dynamic intelligence practices, the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, said in a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School yesterday. “With weapons of mass destruction that could result in the death of many, many people—chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons—we assess the likelihood of each,” said McConnell, who became the second director of national intelligence in 2007. “The likelihood of nuclear attack is less but is not eliminated.” Cyberterrorism is yet another rising danger, McConnell said. “The cyber threat...