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...some people it was almost all about potential and ideas." Feldman, a senior fellow at the Council of Foreign Relations who briefly advised the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, said that challenge for him is “to get my ideas out there in this world and hope they have a positive effect...
...decades, nearly every presidential candidate at one time or another has claimed the title "education president." This time around, though, the issue has been consistently overshadowed, especially amid the financial crisis that has erupted in recent weeks. "If Bill Gates is throwing in the towel, there's no hope for the rest of us to get education on the agenda," says Arnold Fege, advocacy director for the Washington-based nonprofit Public Education Network...
...create a program that will fill the A.R.T.’s currently empty seats, restabilize its financial situation, and maintain its reputation as a beacon for innovative theater. Yet it is her charming smile that reveals most about Paulus’ plans for the 2009-2010 season. She hopes to lure every Harvard student to her theatrical events, integrating the A.R.T. more fully into campus life. “At the top of my agenda is to make the A.R.T. the most thriving, vital center for theater at Harvard,” she says. THAT WAS THEN THIS...
Coming after two weeks that have only further dimmed Americans' view of Congress, the successful vote was a cause more for relief than for celebration. Legislators can only hope that voters will soon forget the unprecedented financial and political crisis, in which a lame-duck Administration desperate to get an emergency package passed had barely any sway with a Congress seemingly paralyzed by fear of the impending elections. There was that White House meeting a week ago, which some thought would be a photo op with presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain to announce a bipartisan deal, but which...
...Ogata acknowledges that "China will be a strong competitor," adding that there were "positive results" of the country's larger role in African development. She says she hopes JICA and China can collaborate in the manner that Japan does with other countries. In the meantime, Africa can only hope that both of its suitors follow through on their promises...