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...office was occupied by economists Henry Rosovsky and A. Michael Spence. Rosovsky shepherded the Core Curriculum, which Knowles helped dismantle last year, and tried to calm the University after the unrest of Pusey’s later years. Rosovsky joined the Corporation, Harvard’s top governing board, in 1985. Spence, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, abruptly departed for Stanford Business School in 1990, opening the position for Knowles...
...Iraq terrorists killed the wife and son of Hammadi's brother. His friends and fellow refugees in Damascus warned him that Baghdad was still too dangerous, with dozens being killed daily in sectarian tit-for-tat attacks. But Hammadi, 46, was counting on the increased U.S. troop presence to calm things down. "Nobody can stand against the power of the American military," he says. "I thought that once they increased their forces, the [terrorists] would not stand a chance...
...wanted to live the life of a daring, brash, fun-loving flyer, indifferent to the hazards of his profession, calm and stoic when the adrenaline flowed, fatalistic about life-and-death situations," McCain explained in Pensacola. "In truth, the image I aspired to was, in the end, only irresistible to one person - me, and it was a very childish attraction...
...Dana Perino put it on Monday. It is actually an adapted version of Treasury Secretary Paulson's year-long effort to recast and consolidate American financial regulation to keep it competitive with foreign markets. It codifies the ad hoc powers of market stabilization the Federal Reserve has used to calm the waters since the collapse of Bear Stearns in March. It establishes an authority with control over financial institutions' behavior but leaves open just how much power it would have to enforce standards. It would split the SEC's regulatory power between that new group and another authority focused...
...appeared on Monday that militants had heeded Sadr's call in Basra. Reuters reported that armed fighters were no longer in the streets and that the city was calm. In Baghdad the situation was less clear. The government lifted a city-wide curfew in all but a few militia strongholds, signaling that fears of truly disastrous violence had begun to subside. But at least some militants either had not yet received or were choosing to ignore Sadr's directive. Monday morning rockets or mortars once again slammed into the U.S. and Iraqi headquarters in central Baghdad. In what has become...