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Armed with what colleagues call an exemplary leadership style marked by candidness and team-building, Kirwan will move into University Hall as FAS finance dean in early November, fresh from her stint as the State of Massachusetts’ head finance official under Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78. Kirwan comes on the heels of sweeping budget cuts across the FAS, which faces a remaining deficit of $110 million...
...recent interview with TIME, Michigan's governor, Jennifer Granholm, acknowledged that finances have been a key impetus for reducing the state's prison population. It costs some $30,000 a year to house a single prisoner. "We could be putting that money toward higher education," Granholm told TIME...
...Republican Senate primary in Florida, between Rubio and Governor Charlie Crist, will receive a great deal of national attention in the coming months. At a time when, according to a recent poll, only 20% of Americans identify themselves as Republicans, this race may be the purest test of where the party is headed, a choice between pragmatism and ideology. Both candidates are excellent. Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida house, is young, handsome, enthusiastic and articulate in an unpackaged, spontaneous way. Crist has been, by almost every account, a popular and successful governor. He is more the traditional politician...
...order, a foreign policy hawk. But these are not reasonable times. In February, Crist not only came out in favor of Barack Obama's stimulus package; he welcomed the stimulator himself to Florida. There is a picture, which Floridians will see more than once before the primary, of the governor and the President arm in arm. Crist's aides can list the various things the stimulus funds have done for Florida - saved the jobs of 26,000 teachers, for starters. They will also tell you that Florida is a net "donor" state: it sends more money to the Federal Government...
...told the International Olympic Committee that this is not easy, and they know that," Rio Governor Sergio Cabral said. "We don't want just to be ready for special days - for that we can put 40,000 police on the streets. I told them we want to get to 2016 and have a peaceful Rio de Janeiro before, during and after the Games...