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...would argue with the fact that the President of the United States is a “busy” man. Multiple daily meetings and briefings, speeches, and engagements seem to leave the president with no time to do anything but work—but not so. In August of this year, the president and his family enjoyed a summer vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. In addition to this scheduled activity, the president schedules basketball games with advisors and close friends as well as dinners with his wife. To be fair, unlike President Obama, students don?...

Author: By Patrick Jean Baptiste | Title: A (Phone) Call for Sanity | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

Capuano seeks to fill the Senate seat vacated by the death of the late Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 in August. This endorsement from the nation’s first female Speaker of the House is an important advantage in the race against opponent Attorney General Martha Coakley who, if elected, would be the eighteenth woman to serve in Congress and the state’s first female U.S. Senator...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: House Speaker Backs Capuano for Senate | 11/16/2009 | See Source »

...Sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in October after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate in August (he was nominated for the post by President Obama in May). Oversees about 200 lawyers in one of the nation's most high-profile prosecutor positions. Recently brought charges against billionaire Raj Rajaratnam and 19 others in an extensive and ongoing insider-trading probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 9/11 Prosecutor Preet Bharara | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...only did the speaker demonstrate the savvy that garnered her the speaker’s gavel in the first place by wrangling the votes to pass a bill whose epitaph pundits had been composing since the notorious town hall protests of Congress’ August recess, but she also, as columnist Camille Paglia wrote for Salon, “conclusively demonstrated that a woman can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as anyone in the long line of fabled male speakers before...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Pyrrhic Victory | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...foreign media in Hong Kong, trying to bring attention to her disappearance. "When all this tumbled together, I had to do something," Connelly says. "No one disappears in a vacuum. Someone knows something." With some noting that Jaycee Lee Dugard, an American girl abducted 18 years ago, reappeared in August and is now back with her family, no one has given up - not the police, not Connelly and definitely not the Ashekian family. Sossy, Ani's sister, told TIME, "She's still out there somewhere, and until we hear otherwise, we will not lose our hope in finding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Crime Writer Tackles a Real Hong Kong Cold Case | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

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