Word: fellowe
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Lord knows I could use the money. I have too much credit card debt, eat too much pasta, and routinely glance at a fellow straphanger?s Wall Street Journal in the morning to try and save that 75 cents a day. The best financial news I?ve had lately was that I never found the money to buy stock in AOL (battered along with the rest of the techs last week, it hit 77 Thursday, down from 170 in April). Risk capital? It's tough enough to find rent capital, and I?ll bet, boom or no boom, that...
Political heavyweights woo him. Candidates invite him to fundraising dinners and policy addresses. But yesterday, New York Times senior national political correspondent Richard L. Berke's only destination was the Institute of Politics (IOP), where the former fellow there talked about the campaign and reminisced about his Harvard days...
...wasn't just the money," says Margaret Wallace, who emigrated from Jamaica in 1980 and was a poorly paid teacher's assistant for the blind before becoming a Kennedy Fellow in 1992. John was personally involved, "asking, how is the course work, what job do I want to do, what's my future?" Wallace got a degree in special education last year and now teaches those with cerebral palsy. Nearly all the 400 fellows over the years have stayed in the disabilities field...
...nine years of expansion. Slashing taxes now "seems a little odd," says Cynthia Latta, principal U.S. economist for Standard & Poor's DRI. "Its support comes from the assumption that if [the surplus] is not handed back to taxpayers, the government will just use it for more programs." Latta's fellow critics include Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who warned last week that "the timing is not right" for the House measure, which calls for a 10% across-the-brackets cut in income taxes and a reduction of the 20% rate on capital gains to 15%. Translation: the proposals could overheat...
Gartner also won a Pulitzer Prize--the 1997 award for editorial writing--before assuming the top post at NBC. In 1994, he was an Institute of Politics fellow, and led a study group on the relationship between media and politics...