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...former mayors and a previous prime minister of Haiti are among those selected to serve as spring semester fellows at the Institute of Politics, the IOP announced yesterday...
...fellows, whose diverse backgrounds represent the many levels of public service that exist in today’s world, were chosen by a student advisory committee and IOP staff...
...think—as did the founders of the Institute, as did President Kennedy and his family—that the critical part is the opportunity to meet with and learn from and follow those people who have themselves devoted their life to public service,” IOP Director Bill P. Purcell said...
People with ties to Washington will also join the IOP this spring, including Ernest J. Istook, a former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma and a current distinguished fellow at the conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation, and Mary Catherine "M.C" Andrews, former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and director of the White House Office of Global Communications...
William R. Rose ’11, leader of the IOP survey program, said that the disconnect between the approval ratings of Obama’s job performance and his handling of specific issues may be a result of people agreeing with Obama’s general message as a whole but “feel[ing] frustrated because not much is getting done.” Rose used health care legislation as an example, referring to one of the bill’s amendments that would add more restrictions on abortions offered through insurance plans...