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...Admittedly, I may be just a bit self-interested here, but such cutbacks couldn't come at worse time, with the climate battle truly ready to heat up. (In his address on Feb. 24, President Barack Obama called for Congress to send him cap-and-trade legislation.) It won't be easy, but as Pooley argues, climate change is too important to be treated like a "disposable beat," even as the media itself seems increasingly disposable. Until that changes - until reporters embrace their roles as honest referees and their bosses give them the space and resources to do their...
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Ashton B. Carter was named the U.S. military’s chief weapons buyer by President Barack Obama on Monday. Carter—who is co-director of the Preventive Defense Project—has been a vocal critic of the Pentagon for purchasing what he deems to be unnecessary weapons and has called for greater alignment between military strategy and spending. Carter was originally scheduled to teach the class “American National Security Policy” at the Kennedy School this spring, but he joins the growing list of Harvard professors who have...
This week, President Barack Obama called for the 19 largest banks in the country to undergo “stress tests” to determine whether they are adequately capitalized to withstand a significant economic downturn. Critics have claimed that the government’s worst-case economic condition forecasts are too weak, making the tests inadequate. Still, the tests should provide valuable information on the health of our banking system, and the administration was wise to order them. Should the results eventually show that any major bank is undercapitalized, the government should not hesitate in taking it into receivership...
...colleagues and former classmates echo one another in saying that her own experience as a Law School student shaped not only her character, but her vision for the future of the school and her approach to her next would-be position as solicitor general in President Barack Obama’s administration.‘ONE OF A MILLION’Kagan speaks fondly of her years at the Law School but acknowledges that her positive memories were the exception rather than the norm.“When I was here in the mid-80s, those weren?...
...Obama, President Barack • apoplexy is induced in Tom DeLay by speech of • public does not share the obsession with bipartisanship of, and would really rather that campaign promises of be kept by, whether Republicans who created the current disasters like it or not • opponents of are so desperate that all they can do is cling, and cling, and cling, and cling, to crazed allegations of the non-American birth...