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Gergen poked fun at the current stimulus bill, stating that the proposal’s approval rating is 20 percent lower than that of Obama himself...
Secretly or openly, many Harvard students harbor aspirations to be the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. This behavior manifests itself in the skyrocketing number of student organizations and enterprises. There are clubs devoted to starting other clubs and businesses devoted to founding other businesses. Overall, despite the shrinking student funding resources and questions about genuine motives, this entrepreneurial bent is beneficial to the Harvard community. Students are better able to pursue their interests because of increasingly specialized organizations that bring in speakers and provide opportunities that would otherwise be absent. The entrepreneurs themselves also acquire valuable skills...
...Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, said the incentive package could increase the financial security of the union’s longer-term members—especially those who are nearing retirement anyway...
...Undergraduate Council unanimously passed a bill on Sunday creating an ad-hoc student relations committee that will aim to improve communication between the UC and the student body. The committee is charged with maintaining the UC’s Web site, sending out a weekly e-mail newsletter, and holding public town hall meetings, along with other outreach efforts According to Eric N. Hysen ’11, the UC parliamentarian, no undergraduates who are not members of the Council or the media are in the habit of attending UC general meetings. “We want to have events...
...chief of health-related issues, Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan said: "We pray for her and ask the Lord for forgiveness for all that they did to her." Other strong words were exchanged in the Italian Senate, which had been in the throes of a passionate debate over an emergency bill introduced by Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi that would have forced doctors to resume life-support. When news of the death reached the Senate floor, there was a moment of silence before several Berlusconi allies began shouting: "Assassins!" Another center-right Senator, Gaetano Quagliariello, declared: "Eluana didn't die, she was killed...