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After a six-month search for a new executive director, the Cambridge Police Review and Advisory Board will now be able to investigate complaints filed in response to the July 2009 arrest of Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., professor and director of the W.E.B Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies...
Shortly after the ad hoc panel was assembled, the Police Review and Advisory Board voted to look into three complaints about Gates’ arrest in September, but the lack of official leadership hindered the investigation. The advisory board has been without a director for much of the past year...
...City, getting engaged to his longtime assistant, giving speeches around the world, making wry comments about the uselessness of financial innovation and the remorselessness of Wall Street. He was also making cagey references to his lack of influence with Obama, for whom he was chairing an obscure economic-recovery board. Congressman Paul Kanjorski says that last March, when he pitched Volcker on a plan to let regulators break up big banks that threatened the financial system, the former Fed chair said, "I'm out of vogue right now in the White House ... but I agree." Volcker secured his walk...
Back in January 2008, while meeting with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal before the Democratic Nevada caucuses, Barack Obama offered some approving commentary on the legacy and influence of the 40th President. Ronald Reagan, he said, "changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not." Not surprisingly, Obama's remark riled both Hillary Clinton and her husband, who viewed it as demeaning to the achievements of the Clinton Administration as well as a cheap tactic to win favor with some...
...have left him without any calling card to widen his support (essential for winning policy fights and elections). The Gipper wooed so-called Reagan Democrats by finding common cause with them on key issues such as national security and lower taxes while still keeping his political base solidly on board. Education, spending cuts and maybe even health care are all ripe areas where Obama can make another effort to reach out to voters, if not intransigent Republicans in Washington...