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...turns out that many professors and instructors are, legally, on the dole as well, and students are beginning to worry that what they're being taught is just as one-sided as what patients are being prescribed. Campaigns to curb the med-school cash are growing - on campus, in Congress and in local governments - and Harvard, at the moment, is at the center of it. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...staffers who may come under scrutiny in the Leahy and Feinstein investigations, there's some consolation in the fact that their new boss is in their corner. Former Congressman and Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta has promised to cooperate with Congress, saying, "I think that we have a responsibility to be transparent on these issues and to provide them that information." But during his confirmation hearings by Feinstein's Committee, Panetta made it clear he doesn't support the prosecution of CIA staff involved in detention and interrogation of terror suspects, saying they were simply following guidelines...
There is a battle looming in Congress, a contest that will pit many of the most powerful companies in America against each other, potentially reallocate trillions of dollars in spending, and literally impact the future health and well-being of each and every American. No one knows how the conflict will end, just yet, or who the winners and losers will be. But if Thursday's Health Care Reform summit at the White House is any indication, there is no doubt who will be standing at the middle of the scrum: The nation's self-anointed Mediator-in-Chief, President...
...just want to make sure that I don't get in the way of all of you moving aggressively and rapidly," he told a crowd of corporate and trade group Leaders and members of Congress in an afternoon East Room ceremony. "To the extent that this work is being done effectively in these various committees, then I assure you that we are going to do everything that we can to work with all of you." (Read "Obama Moves Health Care to the Front Burner...
...already bloated Agriculture Department, a long-overdue 10% boost for Amtrak, cuts for Bush-era abstinence and foreign aid programs, zero for a Bush-era reading program plagued by cronyism and mismanagement. The budget is also notable for what it does not include: any reforms of the haphazard ways Congress throws money at infrastructure, agriculture, energy, health care and other big-ticket spending items...