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...Veritas, who is running the soundboard. Then, he launches into “Honest,” an earnest soft-rock tune.Two days later, Powers is working on music again. But this time, he is on the other side of the microphone. As chief recording officer for Veritas, he is working with another band, Shy October, in his cozy home studio in Brookline.As snow falls outside, band members Caitria E. O’Neill ’11, Julie M. Wright ’11, and Luke L. Sperduto ’11 huddle around the piano and work...
...became obvious that Israeli politicians and generals were bungling the war, and that soldiers' lives were being needlessly lost. That hasn't happened yet, but already a few retired generals are starting to complain that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cabinet are dithering. Says former National Security Council Chief Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, "Either reach a cease-fire in two to three days, or start a big military operation that will take at least two weeks. We've been beating around the bush for a week, and we need to make a decision...
Washington is about to get its first official waste watchdog. President-elect Barack Obama recently tapped Nancy Killefer to fill the newly created role of chief performance officer. Killefer, a senior director at management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co., will be in charge of combing through the federal budget to weed out unnecessary programs and streamline government efficiency...
...good understanding of how government works and what the challenges are." - John Koskinen, former colleague in the Treasury Department, on Killefer's qualifications for the chief-performance-officer role, Associated Press...
After the first rounds of air strikes on Hamas targets, chief Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi had cautioned that it was "premature" to say whether the conflict would scuttle the trip. But church insiders now acknowledge that hopes for the planned visit are growing dimmer as the conflict deepens, with Israel's all-out air and ground assault on Gaza growing bloodier. "At the beginning, you could imagine [the war] not forcing the Pope to change his plans," says a well-placed Vatican insider who often travels to the region. "But it's clear now that everything would have...