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...Kagan’s reputation for extending offers regardless of political affiliation has made the faculty less likely to oppose candidates based on ideological grounds. New faculty appointments have spanned the political spectrum, including the controversial former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jack L. Goldsmith, who has drawn fire for his work in formulating Bush administration policies regarding the treatment of enemy combatants. Most importantly, by “eliminating the sense of scarcity” when it came to hiring professors, Kagan reduced the pressure to select the “best possible” candidate every time the faculty...
...spirited" conversation ensued, one person who was in the room told me. "It wasn't a perfunctory recitation of talking points. They were arguing their respective positions, in a respectful way." The other two Senators - Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed - told Petraeus they agreed with Obama. According to both Obama and Petraeus, the meeting - which lasted twice as long as the usual congressional briefing - ended agreeably. Petraeus said he understood that Obama's perspective was, necessarily, going to be more strategic. Obama said that the timetable obviously would have to be flexible. But the Senator from Illinois had laid down...
...store for Bob Dylan, his greatness will outlast many of the contemporaries of his youth, and even more of the contemporaries of today. But if “Tell Tale Signs” indicates an icon fading away, it’s unlikely that Robert Zimmerman, Blind Boy Grunt, Jack Frost, or whatever you want to call him could have picked more worthy music to accompany the falling curtain.—Reviewer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Were your critic's disparaging remarks about American wines [Oct. 6] just sour grapes? Jack Dinsdale, MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND...
Three-term Florida Congressman Tom Feeney has not been criminally charged in the Washington corruption scheme that sent super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to federal prison. But the taint of the Republican's 2003 golf trip to Scotland on Abramoff's dime is derailing his re-election campaign...