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...pledged support, he expressed interest in contributing financially as well. Summers told The New York Times he invested “a few tens of thousands of dollars.” Apart from Summers, other renowned figures who have given interviews posted on the site range from news anchor Jim C. Lehrer to fashion designer Zac Posen and from Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer to chef Jacques Pépin. The field of 83 experts—“well-known, well-respected, and influential,” according to Hopkins—counts 11 Harvard professors, including...
...winner of the Iowa caucuses, the leading contenders for the nomination. The results were a jarring blow to Romney, a graduate of Harvard Business School and the Law School, who considers the state his home turf and had spent more than twice as much money as McCain. IOP Director Jim Leach, a former Iowa Congressman and a moderate Republican, said that as the race continues, those candidates who can bridge the nation’s political divide will have an edge. “What I see is a yearning for idealism,” Leach said...
...greeted the results from Tuesday's New Hampshire primary voting with the same attitude: All those votes he was planning on getting? Well, they were just here! As late at 7 p.m. on election night, Jim MacEachern, Romney's Perry Township chair, was predicting a victory. "We've got 'em," he said, referring to the mobbed polling place he spoke from. (Meanwhile, at the McCain headquarters, aides were trying to suppress grins and quietly showing each other exit polls on their BlackBerrys, shading them with their hands so we mere mortals couldn...
...burgeoning artisanal-spirits industry. "There are nearly 100 independent producers in the U.S. and Canada now," says Owens. "That's up from five in 1990." Experts are encouraging the trend. "It makes me happy that they are up and running, that people are embracing them," says master mixologist Jim Meehan of New York City's speakeasy-inspired PDT, who tasted four artisanal spirits for TIME (see chart). "When they stand up to traditional brands, the standards, I embrace them." He notes, however, that many of the new brands have...
...California initiative, part of the state's landmark climate change plan, could have provided a nationwide model for cutting automobile emissions, one of the single biggest sources of greenhouse gas in the U.S. "The Administration has done a number of indefensible things on the environment and global warming," says Jim Marston, director of the state climate initiative for Environmental Defense. "But this is the worst in terms of process, and the one that will be most harmful to the health and safety of the American people...