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...choosing Geithner and Summers, Obama has tapped two of his party's brightest economic lights. Summers, who became president of Harvard after leaving his job in the Clinton Cabinet, is the economic leader of his generation, but he sometimes plays poorly in the public spotlight. Geithner, a Summers protégé, is smoother and more politically deft, able to work both for the Clinton team and alongside the Bush Administration. Summers, working from the White House, will most likely have Obama's ear, but it will be Geithner's job to speak to the markets, much as a horse...
...their own personal ambition of controlling the party, I don't see how we'll ever get back into power again," lamented Fouzia Benyoub, a Parti Socialiste (PS) member. Her glumness typified the mood at the party's 75th congress in Reims on Saturday. Many of the party's brightest lights seemed to be competing in the increasingly bitter battle for the position of first secretary, with an eye to launching a presidential bid of their own against Sarkozy in four years. And those who weren't were keeping busy dishing out venom at those who were...
...various world leaders. Much of the talk was about the structure of decision-making - especially on national security issues. Eisenhower told his friends that Kennedy had little understanding of the presidency. But on other matters, Kennedy had "tremendously impressed him;" he described him as "one of the ablest, brightest minds I've ever come across." And Kennedy told his brother Bobby that he was struck by the sheer force of Eisenhower's personality. He admitted that Ike was "better than I had thought." On his first day in office, Kennedy made his gratitude official: "I am sure that your generous...
...Donato says. “He’s certainly capable of being a big offensive force for us, and we have high hopes about what he can accomplish.” Though the stakes may have risen for Biega, one of Harvard’s brightest rising stars will still return to the strong work ethic and sense of focus that carried him so far last year. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
John Legend has not yet lived up to his name as a “legend” in the R&B world, but he is certainly a favorite of some industry greats. His rise to stardom can be largely credited to collaborations with the best and brightest of the urban music scene, from his beginnings playing piano on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything,” to his signing with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label in 2003, to the multiple collabos that followed with that Chi-town superstar. His work...