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...exodus of Harvard faculty to the Obama administration garners national attention, some students at the Harvard Kennedy School are lamenting the negative effects the appointments have had on their academic experience. The departure of four prominent Kennedy School professors—John P. Holdren, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence H. Summers, and Samantha Power—resulted in the cancellation of three spring term classes. The trimming of the course list has disappointed many students, according to student government President Benjamin M. Polk, who said that some students are now being forced to take their third and fourth-choice classes. Polk...
...will become the latest Harvard professor to serve in the Obama administration, he said in an interview late last night. Cutler joins three other members of the economics department already headed to Washington—rounding out a group that includes professors Jeremy C. Stein and Jeffrey B. Liebman, as well as former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who heads the National Economic Council. “I think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave. Cutler...
...Liebman will also be in Washington—helping to oversee the policies and management of federal agencies as the new executive associate director of the president’s Office of Management and Budget...
...late 1990s, Liebman served as special assistant to the president for economic policy and coordinated the Clinton administration’s social security reform technical working group...
...Neither Liebman nor Stein could be reached for comment late last night...