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Health care: While Obama cannot insert a fully formed, carefully drafted plan for universal health coverage into a hurried-up economic-stimulus plan, transition aides say he will direct billions toward the health-care sector immediately. Some will go to a massive tech upgrade for an industry that in many ways is still paper-based. More urgent is the need to funnel cash directly from Washington to states so that local legislators don't rush to cut spending on Medicaid as state tax receipts dry up in the recession. "Absent some relief there, you'll get Medicaid budgets slashed," says...
...deep into the government's darker recesses. That's because the Bush team has written so many legal memos okaying various techniques for interrogators working at a wide range of agencies. Some of those opinions have been disclosed publicly, but an unknown number remain classified. Obama will need to direct his Attorney General to issue new legal guidance that supersedes all those legal opinions, seen or unseen, if he hopes to prevent a return to such practices in the future. Former federal prosecutor and onetime trial judge Eric Holder, Obama's pick to lead the effort...
...ranks of Obama’s recently appointed economic advisors: Federal Bank of New York president Timothy F. Geithner will serve as treasury secretary; former University President and former Treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers will serve as NEC chief; and Congressional Budget Office director Peter R. Orszag will direct the Office of Manamgent and Budget. All three have close ties to former Treasury secretary Robert E. Rubin, an executive at Citigroup and a member of the University’s highest governing board, the Harvard Corporation. University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment on the decision, as tenure cases...
...lack of direct communication between Smith and FAS staff has upset some staff members. Some have said the letter’s policy and means of distribution highlight the structural inequity of faculty-staff relation...
...programs, including internships and coursework studies at other universities. The Rockefeller Memorial Fellowship prohibits such academic endeavors and activities spent in the practice or furtherance of a professional career,” according to the fellowship’s Web site. “We run the gamut from direct coursework for credit to experiences that are based on internships, but what is really important are addressing those three principles,” Lue said. He added that the total number of grants to be awarded had not yet been established, and that the CEA was “more...