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...many individuals. I am just ecstatic about it.” The other resident fellows will include Tina Flournoy, assistant to the president for public policy at the American Federation of Teachers and former co-chair of the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee. Jim Ramstad, a former Minnesota Congressman who has been mentioned as a possible choice to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Teresa Vilmain, a political organizer and consultant, have also been selected. —Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
...Europe, and 30% against the dollar. Causes aren't hard to come by. Worries over Britain's fast-shrinking economy, plunging interest rates, a wobbly banking sector and creaking government finances have driven traders to dump the pound. "I would urge you to sell any sterling you might have," Jim Rogers, once a business partner of George Soros and now chairman of a Singapore investment company, told Bloomberg on Jan. 20 just before the pound hit a 23-year low. "I hate to say it, but I would not put any money in the U.K." (See pictures of the financial...
...more than three decades, liberal evangelical leader Jim Wallis has been stubbornly preaching into the wind, telling fellow evangelicals that they need to do something about poverty and urging fellow liberals to partner with religious communities. Now, after years of being drowned out by the Religious Right, Wallis finds himself a most unusual position: he has the ear of the man in the Oval Office. Wallis was one of a small group of religious leaders who participated in the national prayer service that followed Barack Obama's Inauguration. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...other resident fellows will be Tina Flournoy, assistant to the president for public policy at the American Federation of Teachers and former co-chair of the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee; Jim Ramstad, a former Minnesota Congressman who has been mentioned as a possible choice to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and Teresa Vilmain, a political organizer and consultant...
Next, come the executives. Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli and his key lieutenants, Vice chairman Jim Press who came from Toyota in 2007 and vice chairman Tom LaSorda, are also thought to have stakes in Chrysler via their employment agreements with Cerberus. Since Chrysler is a private company, the details of executive stock ownership are not public...