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...Because his medical treatment prevented him from appearing at the ceremony, Faust chose to honor the lawmaker at the special event yesterday. The senator received his honorary degree in front of an audience that included Kerry, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr., who received a standing ovation when he entered the theatre.Tickets to the event were originally distributed by invitation and through a lottery organized by the Institute of Politics. More tickets were made available at the Science Center yesterday afternoon.The ceremony began with footage of a young Kennedy scoring the only...
Vice President-Elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. will be in Cambridge today to honor Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 as the liberal leader receives an honorary degree from the University...
...most surprising thing about President-elect Obama's pick of James Jones Jr. to serve as his national security adviser isn't that he's a retired four-star Marine general. It's that Jones is a longtime friend of Senator John McCain, the man Obama defeated to win the White House. While many prior Democratic national security advisers - think Anthony Lake under Clinton - have been academics or policy wonks, Obama's choice of Jones highlights his centrist tendency and his willingness to confound his party. It will be Jones' job to serve as a foreign-policy broker...
...Power founded. “We don’t know yet what position she’ll have,” he said. “But I think she’s a very strong candidate for a position.” Kennedy professor Graham T. Allison Jr. was more cautious about the possibility of Power joining the administration. “I think that remains to be seen,” he said. Although Allison said he is not surprised by Power’s involvement in the transition team, her role does...
...businesses would likely close or would definitely do so. In the Midwest alone, some 275,000 jobs would be lost as a result of a GM bankruptcy. "If they go into bankruptcy, it's going to have a catastrophic effect on businesses across the board," says John W. Henke Jr., president of PPI, based in Birmingham, Mich. (See the Top 10 Bailout Measures...