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Smith said it would have been difficult to plan the cuts earlier, since the Harvard Corporation—the University’s chief governing body—did not announce the eight-percent reduction in the payout rate until March...
...elected, have not wanted to be implicated in the demise of the source of national defense, social security, medical care, public education, veterans benefits, border protection, etc. So, even though they have controlled Congress and/or the Presidency for all but two and a half of the last twenty-eight years, the beast has always gotten his trans fats and, with minor exceptions, the Republicans have been at least as complicit as Democrats in the fact that the perennially maxed-out credit card keeps overtaking whatever credit limits have been put in place...
...Sacramento, perhaps Philadelphia, which has a brand new opening that an East Coaster like Pitino might find more appealing. "Coach is a fighter," U. of L. sports information director Kenny Klein told TIME, "and he's proven that throughout his career. We have worked with him for eight years, and we trust him. He's told us unequivocally that he's staying and that he has no interest in coaching anywhere but the University of Louisville right now." Through Klein, Pitino and U. of L. athletic director Tom Jurich declined comment...
...dismantling a controversial Bush-era terrorist surveillance program and stepping back from harsh interrogation policies, the Obama Administration is putting the nation at risk. "I think it's fair to argue," said Cheney, "that we're not going to have the same safeguards we've had for the last eight years." (See pictures of former President George W. Bush's trip to the Middle East...
...What's quite clear about Cheney's sudden chatty spree is that he wants to refocus the question about waterboarding and other interrogation techniques from whether they were legal to whether they worked. After eight years on the front lines of the war on terrorism, perhaps that is all a man can see. It certainly might explain why Cheney is making such a fuss about asking Obama to release a pair of after-action memos - which he says offer proof that the controversial methods produced evidence that, as Cheney claimed on Sunday, "saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives...