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Golden Globe-winning actor James Franco will receive the Hasty Pudding Theatrical's 2009 Man of the Year award next Friday, Feb. 13, the group announced earlier today...
...Barack Obama uttered three words seldom heard in Washington: “I screwed up.” Yet following the implication of a third high-level White House appointee in income tax arrears, the president isn’t the only one who should be issuing mea culpas. Earlier this week, heath and human services secretary pick Tom Daschle became the second of Obama’s nominees to withdraw his name from consideration because of tax problems. This happened only a few hours after prospective chief performance officer Nancy Killefer did the same. Daschle explained that he withdrew...
...news from Capitol Hill is particularly welcome in Cambridge. Massachusetts, and especially Harvard, received large percentages of the NIH’s allocated funds in earlier years and will likely benefit significantly from this increased funding. The jobs that new grants will create in Massachusetts and at Harvard will also be beneficial to the state’s economy...
...will be leaving in total. Two of the representatives are graduating, one is leaving for “personal reasons,” and two, including James, are leaving to spend time working on other efforts to improve student life. Seth A. Pearce ’12, who resigned earlier in the semester, said he left because he wanted to spend more time working directly on issues that he was concerned with but was not dissatisfied with the UC, he said. “In terms of what the UC’s mission is, it does great work...
...current furor recalls earlier parliamentary scandals. In 1994 the Conservative party was rocked by another Sunday Times exclusive, alleging that two parliamentarians had accepted bribes in exchange for asking parliamentary questions. In 2006, the Labour party was embroiled in an investigation into accusations of peerages being dangled in front of wealthy donors to secure loans. No charges were ever brought but the episode adds to sensitivities about the House of Lords. In 1997, Labour came to power promising to abolish hereditary peers. In 1999, it expelled most of the hereditary peers, but attempts to complete the reforms by replacing...