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Kennedy School professor Ashton B. Carter won’t have a hard time making friends in Washington. Carter, who recently announced his appointment as the new director of weapons procurement at the Pentagon, will join a flock of Harvard affiliates who have already migrated to the capital. The role call boasts some of our biggest names—from Elena Kagan to Cass R. Sunstein ’75—and the total count comes to at least 10 Harvard professors along with numerous alumni...
...confused as to what the perfect diet is, and this study suggests people should be focusing... on counting calories,” said Stephen D. Anton, a professor at the University of Florida who trained the dietitians who helped conduct the study. “It’s hard to predict how the weight loss industry will respond,” The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, assigned over 800 overweight adults to one of four diets, each composed of different ratios of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Results from the two-year long clinical trial showed...
...many years ago, CIA analysts asked operatives overseas to make daily notes of what the locals were saying - random conversations at dinners, on trains, at the post office. It all amounted to little more than impressions, the locals' hopes and frustrations. Not exactly hard intelligence, but it put the analysts into the swim of a particular country, allowing them to put the phone chatter and hard intelligence into context...
...Which is not to say that appearances don't matter at all. Geithner was chosen as Treasury Secretary over the rough-edged but more experienced former Treasury chief Larry Summers in part because Geithner was considered a smoother salesman. And Geithner will always be saddled with the hard-to-explain $34,000 tax shortfall that almost cost him the nomination. For now, though, Democrats are defending the Treasury Secretary against the bad reviews. "Every Administration official responding to this economic crisis, especially Treasury Secretary Geithner given his role, is working under the equivalent of an electron microscope that dramatically magnifies...
...Still, Congress is already unhappy with the vast sums of money the government is plowing into financial sinkholes like Citigroup and AIG that have been deemed too big to fail, and Geithner may have a hard time persuading it to pony up hundreds of billions of dollars more if necessary, as he said on Tuesday it might be. When the Administration rolls out its more detailed bank-bailout plans in the next few weeks, Geithner will have another chance to salvage his reputation as a salesman. But the truth is, if the plans fail on their...