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...calibrated. While he believed that more troops were needed in post-invasion Iraq, he didn't believe it strongly enough to lay down his four stars and resign. His supporters tend to overlook just how meek his public challenge to Rumsfeld was. He never volunteered it. Senator Carl Levin had to extract it from him, slowly and painfully, during a Senate hearing. That's when, in February 2003, Shinseki said he felt that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed. Forty-eight hours later, it was the derisive reaction of Wolfowitz, who never served...
...taken at least one college course, the data revealed that of those in that age group who voted, 70 percent had gone to college. “It’s mainly a social class difference between the working and middle class,” said CIRCLE Director Peter Levine. “The middle class has more confidence in the government and the possibility of change through the elections,” he said. “In addition, it is easier to campaign to college students.” Turnout among youth voters has been on the rise...
...Certainly Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow - along with three of their colleagues from other states whose economies depend on the auto industry, including Republicans Kit Bond of Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio - felt their plan was sufficient. At a much subdued press conference held right after Reid and Pelosi's wrapped up, they unveiled their compromise, which would pull the $25 billion from a fund approved earlier this year to help the auto industry develop more fuel-efficient cars; that notion had actually been pushed by Republicans earlier in the week, but until Thursday, Democrats had contended...
...instructed hundreds of American and European students. The exhibit devoted to her was coordinated by research assistant Elizabeth Craft and Loeb staff members Virginia Danielson and Sarah Adams. It shows scores left to Harvard by the Boulanger estate and includes a composition by Harvard’s own Robert Levin that he completed at age 12. The exhibit concentrates on Boulanger’s effect on America and especially the impact she made in Cambridge and Boston. “Nadia Boulanger’s influence reached across America,” Craft says. “As composer Virgil...
Yale President Richard C. Levin named School of Management Professor Sharon M. Oster as Podolny’s successor. Oster, who received a doctorate from Harvard in 1974, is currently the director of the School of Management’s Program on Social Enterprise...