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...care policy in D.C. Cutler first came to Harvard in 1991 as an assistant professor, received tenure in 1997, and recently finished a 5-year stint overseeing the Faculty’s social science departments as divisional dean. Outside academia, Cutler has served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic advisers and on the National Economic Council, in addition to advising both Bill Bradley’s and John Kerry’s presidential bids. He has been consulting with Obama since at least April 2007. Cutler, who specializes in health care and public economics, is a vocal...
Summers, the former University President, was named director of the National Economic Council in November...
...credibility of the council was called into question earlier in January, when Transparency International Indonesia accused the institution of being one of the most frequent takers of bribes in the country, particularly in the issuance of halal stickers for food and beverage products. The Council has the sole authority to issue halal certificates - a stamp that can make or break a product in this 85% Muslim market. And while some praised the group for taking on the tobacco lobby in its antismoking efforts, the clerics fell short of banning the habit outright - not surprising in a country where cigarette companies...
Four days after the fatwa went out, students continued to fill the classrooms of Jakarta's Jakartadoyoga Studio. On Jan. 28, the influential Indonesian Ulemas Council issued a religious edict forbidding all Indonesian Muslims to practice yoga that incorporates pre-Hindu religious rituals such as meditation and chanting. And while students at the yoga studio admitted they had heard about the proclamation, which allows yoga only for the purpose of exercise or sport, they say it won't deter them from attending classes in the popular Indian practice. "Issuing a fatwa is not the way to settle a controversy...
...esoteric edict is one in a string of attempts by some religious groups and parties in Indonesia to influence morality in the country - efforts that not everyone in the Muslim-majority nation appreciates. The council, which is not an official government body although it receives funding from the Ministry of Religion, has lately come under attack by moderate religious groups for a series of controversial edicts that critics say embolden radical elements in the nation. Though some of the group's religious calls have been praised - it recently issued a fatwa against smoking by minors and pregnant women - others have...