Word: columbia
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...political litmus tests in its hiring process to its justifications for wiretapping and torture, the Justice Department was the epicenter of George W. Bush's most controversial policies. So more than any other nominee to Barack Obama's Cabinet, would-be Attorney General Eric Holder - a former District of Columbia Superior Court judge and Deputy Attorney General during Bill Clinton's presidency - should expect his time before the Senate to be a referendum on the departing President. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
Litt holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard. He spent three years as a legislative aide to the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York and then got a law degree at Columbia. He was a judicial clerk before becoming an associate at the law firm, Paul Weiss. He joined the U.S Attorney's office in D.C. in 1998. In that office, he handled a bunch of prostitution cases, many of which went to trial. "He is kind of a nerdy guy, so watching him question all of these prostitutes and John Does in court was kind of funny...
...true that as temperatures warm, there is likely to be a temporary beneficial effect on agriculture. Like people, plants generally prefer warmth to cold, and they may flourish with rising levels of CO2. But research from Wolfram Schlenker at Columbia University shows that, as average temperatures continue to warm, those benefits dwindle and eventually reverse, and crop yields begin to decline. "It simply becomes too hot for the growing plants," says Naylor. "The heat damages the crops' ability to produce enough yield...
...another Harvard affiliate to the future President’s administration. Genachowski, who was an editor of the Harvard Law Review when Obama was its president, is friendly with the President-elect from their time at the Law School, and overlapped with Obama during their undergraduate years at Columbia. He helped draft the Obama campaign’s technology platform, and worked on Obama’s record-breaking fundraising Web site. As chairman of the FCC, Genachowski will take the reins of an organization that has become increasingly relevant with the rise of the Internet and information technology such...
...particularly vitriolic exchanges. For example, one contributor to a forum on Facebook wrote, "Israel = killers," which drew this response from another user: "Maybe I'll wrap a towel around my head and beat my wife for peace in the name of Allah." Rahel Aima, an undergraduate student at Columbia University who frequents several social-networking sites, says she has been "shocked by some of the hyper-distilled hatred and racism that I've seen in the past few days. I've only really seen such a flurry of polarizing sentiments with this current Gaza situation...