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Democratic sources say President-elect Barack Obama will name former University President Lawrence H. Summers director of the National Economic Council—essentially the president’s senior economic advisor—according to news reports this weekend. Once a top contender to be Obama’s...
The Harvard women’s squash team (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) opened its 2008-09 campaign by notching convincing wins over Brown and Williams with twin 9-0 routs. With last year’s entire starting nine returning and two highly-touted freshman opening their collegiate careers...
But even in a Democratic-run Pentagon the push for missile defense is going to continue. If Obama keeps Defense Secretary Robert Gates on, as some advisers are arguing he should, that would come as no surprise. "Russia has nothing to fear from a defensive missile shield," Gates said Thursday...
Why she could be tapped: Once considered a contender for Obama's VP slot, Napolitano has signed legislation boosting elementary education in her state, including an initiative to guarantee full-day kindergarten throughout Arizona. She also co-chaired a panel called Renewing Our Schools, Securing Our Future, which in 2005...
Should Gates be passed over or decline to continue serving, former Clinton Navy Secretary Richard Danzig is a leading contender to run the Pentagon. And Danzig made clear last month where an Obama Administration might lean in the wars currently underway. Iraq in "now a political problem; security and the...