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...free world: a reported $150,000 per speech. That may seem like a lot for a man who left Washington with a record-low 22% approval rating. But it's far from exorbitant on the world's most lucrative lecture circuit--one of the perks that prompted John Updike to dismiss the presidency as "a way station en route to the blessed condition of being an ex-President...
...desperate mental contortionism employed here to slander Jindal’s bipartisan critics evokes the illogic used during the 2008 presidential election by a cavalcade of left-wing commentators, including Slate’s John Dickerson, The Kansas City Star’s Lewis Diuguid, and author David Shipler. These pundits claimed that nearly every criticism aimed at Obama was a Machiavellian ploy, using subtle wordplay to remind white voters of his blackness—even if this criticism did not reference race...
...these words have been used against white politicians in the past. John Kennedy was called inexperienced, and John Kerry elitist and arrogant, for reasons other than blackness. Granted, some words, like “welfare queens” and “busing,” have used blacks as wedges between whites, but the terms “inexperienced,” “socialist,” and “elitist” have no such racial dimension. The truth is that nearly any word can be construed as racial. By labeling every argument against...
Physicist Cherry A. Murray has been selected as the Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.Murray, who is currently the principal associate director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will also be appointed the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences.The selection was announced to SEAS faculty in an e-mail sent yesterday afternoon, according to Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, a professor of physics at SEAS who served as dean for a decade. He was succeeded in the interim by Applied...
...Minimum Tax relief for the middle class. "At least the budget that the Obama Administration presented, even though it's huge and it's a huge deficit - and that enables the other team to beat up on it - the truth is that it's honest and truthful," says Representative John Tanner, a Tennessee Democrat and member of the so-called Blue Dog group of 47 fiscally conservative Dems in the House, six of whom voted against Obama's stimulus plan. (See who's who in Obama's White House...