Word: ellwood
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Bane returns to the Kennedy School on the heels of both Nye, who served as the assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, and Kennedy School Academic Dean David T. Ellwood, who was also an assistant secretary at HHS during Clinton's first term...
...Ellwood and Bane have worked together for years. During the 1980s, they teamed up to work on a number or articles, including a well-known study of poverty in America...
Surely the K-School still retains its liberal credentials. After all, it did bring Hillary Clinton (the It-Takes-A-Village-"socialist") and Jesse Jackson (who's as liberal as you get) to speak this fall. And the K-School did bring back Clinton policy adviser Ellwood and recruit establishment preserver/reformer William Julius Wilson. Maybe the K-School is simply following the winds of national change for fear of irrelevance. Hopefully, that fear will not cause it to lose its ordinary reasonableness for some temporary gain in popularity. The inclusion of perspectives necessary to open debate is one thing...
...practical experience in government and a graduate of the school to boot." No one would deny that Burke is qualified for the job, but the selection of such a prominent (though moderate) conservative speaks to an effort to counter-balance the left-leaning weight of the academic dean, David Ellwood, a one-time Clinton appointee...
Asked whether the misgivings were rooted in the Clinton Administration's continued shift to the right or in Washington culture itself, Ellwood says it is "hard to separate them...