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DENVER—Outgoing IOP Director Jim Leach spoke to delegates of the Democratic Party yesterday, giving an evening floor speech at their party convention about the need to bridge political divides and make the United States stronger...
...spruce up NBC's online portfolio (which also includes MSNBC.com and CNBC.com) before selling the entertainment arm to a digital media company such as Google (which owns YouTube) or Apple. "The Weather Channel would add some icing to the cake," says Nicholas Heymann, an analyst for Sterne Agee & Leach. As syndication fees have evaporated and profit margins have thinned, TV companies have become less attractive assets. GE "has to start lighting a fire under its stock," notes Heymann...
Purcell, who will become the director on Sept. 1, will assume a post that was originally vacated by former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat who returned to her home state to run for the U.S. Senate. Former Representative Jim Leach, a moderate Republican from Iowa, served as interim director for the past year before returning to an academic position at his alma mater, Princeton...
...Graham, and former Pakistani ambassador Maleeha Lodhi are three of the six fall fellows, who were selected by a group of IOP students and administrators. "It's an eclectic, balanced, thoughtful group that in an election year is going to galvanize the students at the institute," IOP director Jim Leach, a former congressman from Iowa, said in an interview. The fellows will spend a semester on campus, during which time they will each lead a study group centered on a specific topic. Nicco A. Mele, the former webmaster for Howard Dean's presidential campaign, will lead a group examining technology...
...Democrats, who plan on having breakfast with Edwards. Edwards, who suffers from breast cancer, will have a packed schedule while she is on campus from April 8 to 10, holding a public address at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum in addition to meeting with students. IOP Director Jim Leach said he was at first worried that Edwards would be too busy. “Her response was ‘I can do more,’” Leach said. Markus R.T. Kolic ’09, former chair of the Harvard Students for Edwards, said...