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Heath will perform a new arrangement of Moody’s 2005 composition “Moody’s Groove,” which was commissioned for the concert by the Harvard Jazz Bands. Along with Heath, saxophonist Bill Pierce from the Berklee College of Music will also be featured at the concert...
...Ortiz’s opinion, students walk around all day with little regard for the staff members who make Harvard tick. To counteract audiences’ ignorance, Ortiz aimed to tie “Working” directly to Harvard itself. He approached Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), and formed a partnership. The actors in “Working” now wear HUCTW uniforms, and HUCTW workers attended their final dress rehearsal...
Start with the calendar. Financial reform still needs to get through the full Senate. Then the House and Senate would have to work out a compromise bill, which would have to get through the House and Senate again, which would mean ample opportunities for filibusters and other delays. And the window for bipartisan cooperation - never a particularly large window - gets smaller every day. "Time is not the friend of reform," an Administration official told me in January. "This won't get done after everyone goes home to campaign in August...
...financial meltdown. But he's been so outspoken - especially about the consumer agency - that it would be tough for him to accept anything less dramatic than his tough proposals. And many Democrats see an uncompromising stance against Wall Street as a political winner; if it doesn't produce a bill, they're happy to have an issue they can use against Republicans in the fall...
...other business lobbies, many Republicans - and some conservative Democrats - are deeply uncomfortable with a financial crackdown in the first place. Senator Bob Corker has been the GOP's leading voice for compromise, even criticizing his own party's intransigence, but he also told me many provisions in the House bill were "crazy left," and said Obama's proposal for a modest tax on big banks reminded him of Venezuela. Really, it's hard to imagine many Republicans saying yes unless they thought they'd get hammered for saying no. (See pictures of Republican memorabilia...