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...will be prepared to move ahead with projects. While Harvard researchers anxiously await further guidance from federal grant-giving agencies, central administration officials are working with faculty across the science schools to provide the most up-to-date information on University prospects for federal funding, Harvard’s chief lobbyist Kevin Casey said this week. “We’re not directing,” Casey said, pointing out that the bulk of federally funded projects are investigator-driven. “We’re a hub of information.” The stimulus package provides...
...preserve small elementary class size and keep the student teacher ratio at about 18:1. Three new kindergarten classrooms were also included in the budget, as projected kindergarten enrollment in the coming academic year is projected to rise almost 7 percent to 800 children. According to James Maloney, the chief operating officer for the Cambridge Public Schools, these classrooms may be in the Tobin School, the Morse School, the King School, and/or the Cambridgeport School. Overall, the School Committee members responded positively to the proposed budget. Nancy Tauber said that she was “extremely pleased?...
...never doubt the existence of God.” While the study was originally published as a business analysis of the online market for pornography, it has quickly turned political. Martha “Martabel” Wasserman ’10, the editor-in-chief of H-Bomb—the campus sex magazine—said that the results of the study undermine the traditional conservative position. “It shows that they’re hypocritical, and that we shouldn’t make pornography and sex work illegal, but should instead make conditions better...
Ronald Reagan once sent him a personal letter and William F. Buckley considered him a friend. But when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Rush Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force" of the Republican Party, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele responded that the AM radio host was nothing more than a "divisive" and "ugly" entertainer...
...Which is not to say that appearances don't matter at all. Geithner was chosen as Treasury Secretary over the rough-edged but more experienced former Treasury chief Larry Summers in part because Geithner was considered a smoother salesman. And Geithner will always be saddled with the hard-to-explain $34,000 tax shortfall that almost cost him the nomination. For now, though, Democrats are defending the Treasury Secretary against the bad reviews. "Every Administration official responding to this economic crisis, especially Treasury Secretary Geithner given his role, is working under the equivalent of an electron microscope that dramatically magnifies...