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...while there is a place in Washington for 50-chapter briefing books, the more important text for Obama could fit on a note card: Clear priorities. Everyone in the capital has a plan for a new President. Unless he sets his own agenda, others will eagerly set it for him. Obama has a lot to choose from. Recently, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, no fan of his, compiled a catalog of promises and programs Obama has made during the campaign. Including documentary quotations, the list ran 85 pages. Obama recently told Time's Joe Klein that...
...plan. In particular, residents complained about what task force chair Ray Mellone called “nebulous” plans for the Holton Street Corridor and a proposed housing complex for Harvard affiliates in the South District. Some residents also questioned how Harvard’s master planning would fit in with the community-wide planning efforts lead by the city. “This seemed to me like it was a quick study of how to prepare for changes in that area without really knowing whats best,” Mellone said. “These...
...apprehended Verissimo Tavaras, an 18-year-old male from Randolph, MA in front of Johnston Gate in the early morning. Tavaras and a number of other individuals fit the description of a group that has been seen slashing tires on Saturday...
...Republican ticket. “Given the character of the campaign McCain and Palin have waged, it does not surprise me that a person like Charles Fried would be alienated,” Kennedy said. “I’m glad that my colleague has seen fit to support the better candidate.” In recent weeks, Obama has collected endorsements from a slew of moderate Republicans, including former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, as well as the former Republican governors of Massachusetts and Minnesota, William F. Weld ’66 and Arne H. Carlson...
...tracks video games at the securities firm Wedbush Morgan. "You're going to see a shift from high-cost forms of entertainment to low." Parents may cancel a Christmas ski trip that would cost about $40 per hour, the logic goes, and instead spring for Nintendo's Wii Fit so the family can do some virtual skiing through the long, cold winter at a cost of $1 per hour...