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It’s a sign of the times that a panel on the financial crisis could draw 200 people to the Harvard Kennedy School in 25-degree weather. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz headlined a panel of financial experts in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday. He said that last weekend’s G20 summit was a welcome sight for the beleaguered global economy, even if it has yet to produce noticeable results. “It is very important that there was a G20 meeting, not G7, because the G7 [countries] are all bankrupt...
...novelist has also given to other universities, including $1 million to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City to open a “Crime Scene Academy,” which will train students and law enforcement officials in forensics. Established in 1928, the Straus Center is the oldest facility of its kind in the United States, Manoogian said. Past projects at the center have included the study of the sculptural characteristics of Mondrian paintings with ex-radiology, Lie said...
Pizzotti joins running back William Ford of South Carolina State, wide receiver John Matthews of San Diego and running back-return man Larry Warner of Southern Illinois in being selected as a late addition to the list of candidates for the honor, which will be given...
...shrewdness as well. The surprising proffer to Clinton came the same week that Obama sat down with John McCain in Chicago and helped engineer a commutation for Senator Joe Lieberman, who had backed McCain in the election and faced possibly being stripped of his committee chairmanship. The general amnesty campaign, part of a promise to change the way Washington works, impressed some longtime partisans. "It's brilliant," says a senior Republican Party official. "My hat is totally off to the guy." Viewed more cynically, bringing Clinton into the tent could co-opt a potential adversary...
...could shrink roughly 1% in 2009 in what could be the worst recession since the 1930s, according to Richard Curtin, director of the University of Michigan's survey of consumer sentiment. As if Detroit isn't hurting enough, its biggest longtime booster in Washington, Michigan Representative John Dingell, lost his powerful perch as head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a caucus vote on Thursday. For 28 years, Dingell had helped craft every piece of environmental legislation, but he will now have to hand his gavel to California Representative Henry Waxman, a darling of environmental groups...