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...This is why the problem of how America works needs to become the focus of an urgent national debate. The jobs crisis offers an opportunity to think in profound ways about how and why we work, about what makes employment satisfying, about the jobs Americans can and should do best. But the ideas Washington has delivered so far are insufficient. They reflect a pre-9%-11% way of thinking as much as old defense policy reflected a pre-9/11 notion of who our enemies were. The funding for job creation in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was based...
...tropes about Bush's 9/11 and the wars that followed was that they conveniently allowed him to deal with problems bedeviling his young Administration: a lack of focus, difficulty reforming the U.S. military, trouble articulating a global vision. Obama now faces a host of problems of his own: weakening political will, an inevitable "What next?" after health care, a base that has lost energy. His 9/11 is just the sort of transcendent issue that can reconnect him to the theme of hope and change. A tough challenge? You bet. But as Obama's presidency unfolds, it will be the most...
Mendillo said that the Company is now also considering remodeling its portfolio to encourage team collaboration, focus more on internal strengths, and reassess the endowment’s risk and the University’s needs. While overall risk management was “adequate” last year and helped avoid extreme volatility, Mendillo wrote that more is being done now to manage risk and that lessons have been learned, particularly that “the risk tolerance of the University needs to be an integral factor” when determining how the endowment is invested...
...focus of her plans, as expressed in “Experience the A.R.T.”—Paulus’ initiative—is to restructure the experience of theater to facilitate active spectator involvement in and out of the theater building. According to Paulus, viewers should not only enjoy the show as audience members, but also be able to take advantage of opportunities to dine, socialize, and perform with the artists...
...ever have been,” said Jones, who pointed to the health-care debate as a particularly striking current example. “With these fellows, we feel like we’re right on the tip of the arrow.” Geer, whose research will focus on how news media coverage actually augments negative campaign advertising, said he was excited to interact with members of the Harvard community and to immerse himself in Cambridge life. “Academics and political scientists like me tend to keep ourselves in ivory towers and not interact with practitioners...