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Safra Center Director Lawrence Lessig introduced Spitzer as “perhaps the most important living prosecutor of a wide range of corruption...
Ruth Wedgwood, director of the International Law and Organizations Program at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said that she was unaware of any direct precedent of the government seizing mosques, and said the judge in the case will probably scrutinize the move closely because it involves houses of worship. While it would be impossible to have spun this up overnight in response to a thrust and parry from the Ahmadinejad regime, she said it's possible that Iran's decision to walk away from a nuclear recycling arrangement may have played a role...
...profile aide to President Obama will soon be managing the public face of his Administration. Dan Pfeiffer was named the next White House communications director on Nov. 10, following the announcement that current communications chief Anita Dunn will step down by the end of the year. At 33, Pfeiffer has already worked for half-a-dozen prominent Democrats. He will be Obama's third communications director, following Ellen Moran (now a Commerce Department official) and Dunn. Though not a familiar name or face, Pfeiffer has been an important presence in Obama's inner circle since the early days...
...Entered Democratic politics immediately after graduating, serving as communications director for President Clinton's initiative to add 100,000 police officers. Joined the communications office of Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000. Went on to work for the Democratic Governors Association and Democratic Senators Tim Johnson, Tom Daschle and Evan Bayh...
...Recruited to Barack Obama's campaign in 2007 by Peter Rouse, a top aide to the then-Senator who had also hired Pfeiffer to work in Sen. Daschle's office. Pfeiffer began as Obama's traveling press secretary and was later named the campaign's communications director. After Obama's victory, he ran the transition's communications effort. He became the White House's Deputy Communications Director when Obama took office in January...