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...week is sure to be volatile, even as our captains of industry try their best to keep the faith. The CEOs of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch held a joint press conference to discuss in upbeat tones B of A's planned takeover of Merrill, while Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson held a press conference to tell Americans they should remain confident in the "soundness and resilience in the American financial system...
...create a new political conversation, let alone a tangent. This imbalance has caused some soul-searching and second-guessing in newsrooms as reporters realize they are being successfully manipulated by the McCain campaign. "Stop the madness," said TIME's own Mark Halperin in an appearance on CNN to discuss the controversy. "I think this is the press just absolutely playing into the McCain campaign's crocodile tears...
Schwartz declined to comment on the matter but said he would discuss the event in two weeks...
...statement provoked swift response. Washington Archbishop Donald Wuerl issued a statement calling her comments "incorrect," while her own archbishop in San Francisco characterized them as "in serious conflicts with the teachings of the Catholic Church." Pelosi and her archbishop are in the process of setting up a meeting to discuss their differences. But one prominent liberal Catholic privately called the episode "a disaster...
...fallen to 21 percent—half the rate of the previous year.Martin started a mentoring program for untenured female professors, where junior professors would be paired with senior faculty from a different department within the same division. The program, she said, enabled junior faculty to discuss sensitive department issues if needed. Fifty untenured faculty members and 25 tenured professors participated, according to Martin.But now, Martin said in an interview, she is worried that some of the programs she started may not continue.While Martin was serving officially as an advisor on diversity to the dean of FAS, she said that...