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...Just as President Bush brushed aside demands from his party's right wing in his recent nominations to the Supreme Court, the White House has chosen a similar path in relation to the Fed, selecting a relative moderate with a strong chance of winning confirmation. Key Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, which must approve Bernanke's nomination, have already given his candidacy a cautious welcome. "We need a careful, non-ideological person who understands that the Federal Reserve's main job is to fight inflation, and Ben Bernanke seems to fit that bill," said Sen. Charles Schumer, who sits...
...Crimson has chosen to preserve the privacy of the club’s “punches”—the female undergraduates who are seeking admission—by withholding their identities...
According to Gline, most of the 1,642 official and unofficial student groups that maintain HCS lists have chosen to make their archives public...
...voting process. In Prospect’s announcement of the results, the magazine mentioned that some intellectuals linked to the voting page from their personal websites.—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu.CREAM OF THE CROPThe world’s top 10 public intellectuals, chosen by voters in an online poll, with the number of votes received in parentheses.#1: Noam Chomsky (4,827) #2: Umberto Eco (2,464) #3: Richard Dawkins (2,188) #4: Vaclav Havel (1,990) #5: Christopher Hitchens (1,844)#6: Paul Krugman (1,746) #7: Jurgen Habermas...
...Serbia and Montenegro, and Spain - that has so far netted more than 40 suspected 'Ndrangheta members and associates believed to be involved in the cocaine trade. But Italian officials worry that the clan has a lucrative new financial target in its sights. Earlier this month, a general contractor was chosen to build what will be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge to connect Calabria to Sicily. Antimob investigators say the criminal networks on both sides of the Strait of Messina are hungrily eyeing the j5.7 billion project in hopes of a slice. The local strength and worldwide reach...