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When the minds behind “The Simpsons” and “The West Wing” sit down for an evening chat, politics and pop culture are fair game. Yesterday’s discussion, “Making a Difference: When Hollywood Meets Capitol Hill,” brought together comedian, radio personality, and Simpsons writer Harry Shearer and Emmy Award-winning producer and writer of the West Wing Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. ’76 at the Harvard Law School. Atlantic Monthly senior editor Corby Kummer moderated. The panel, co-sponsored...
...fact, there's one obvious thing Congress and the President could do. But around Capitol Hill only a few lonely voices are willing to talk about it - most of them not for attribution. "You have to encourage people to conserve," says one Republican staffer...
Move over, billy goat—yak is the new black for cashmere-style sweaters.While their Kennedy School classmates head off to jobs at the United Nations and on Capitol Hill, Carol Chyau and Marie So will launch an enterprise that will bring “Yashmere” from rural China to Western wardrobes.Chyau and So are hatching plans to convert the soft, cashmere-like yak down fiber from the Yunnan Province into high-quality yarn sold on the international knitters’ market.The two students say they want to use innovative business solutions to tackle development challenges...
...constant complaints about the Bush White House from Capitol Hill is that the Administration doesn't listen to members of Congress. But since the appointment of new chief of staff Josh Bolten, the White House seems to be trying to change that. In a period of about 36 hours last Tuesday and Wednesday, President Bush personally met with about one quarter of the U.S. Senate. There was a bipartisan discussion with five Democrats and five Republicans about Iraq on Tuesday morning, followed by another large bipartisan session on immigration. The next day, Bush invited a group of about nine...
...limited even among some U.S. allies. And there are growing differences between the U.S. and some of its European partners over what a diplomatic solution might entail - an emerging consensus in European policy circles, as well as among self-styled ?realists? on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill, holds that a diplomatic solution to the crisis requires that the U.S. abandon its refusal to negotiate directly with Tehran...