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...Council yesterday in response to the University’s low-wage worker cuts. The resolution that came before the Council proposed an economic stimulus package in which the City of Cambridge would exempt Harvard from its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT). The resolution’s sponsor, Counsellor Marjorie C. Decker, said that the resolution is a symbolic method to highlight the absurdity of the layoffs. At the last Council meeting, Decker said she thought this type of gesture would shame Harvard into halting layoffs of low-wage workers. Alyssa M. Aguilera...
Regan's organization of the staff has some advantages over the "troika" arrangement that prevailed during most of Reagan's first term. During those years authority was shared by Baker, who has taken Regan's old job at Treasury; Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, now Attorney General; and Michael Deaver, who now heads his own public relations firm. Decision making is faster under Regan, and backstairs White House quarrels have generally stopped...
HAVE YOU TALKED TO BUSH SINCE HE BECAME PRESIDENT? No. But I talk regularly to [Vice President Dick] Cheney, [National Security Adviser Condi] Rice and [White House Counsellor Karl] Rove. I also work with [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld a great deal...
...call to the nation should be given to the entire Congress, packed into the chamber of the House of Representatives. Bush knew it would--must--be the most important address he had ever given. When the speech was suggested on Monday morning, he turned to Karen Hughes, his Counsellor, and said, "I want a copy tonight." Hughes protested; that was impossible. "By 7," he added. Bush, says a senior aide, "wanted it early because he wanted to see if this was something he wanted to do in the first place...
...Character"--an attempt to spur responsible behavior through policies aimed at teaching character education in schools, helping the children of prison inmates and encouraging volunteerism. Bush will also make simple bully-pulpit appeals to patriotic and civic pride. "It's why he ran for office," says White House Counsellor Karen Hughes. "It's the essence of compassionate conservatism...