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...wealthy Wall Street representatives. “We’re tapping a broad and diverse range of opinion from across the country, because an historic crisis demands an historic response,” Obama said according to a posted transcript of the Friday press conference. Feldstein will maintain his Harvard teaching duties while advising the president. He is one of several board members whose economic views may conflict with dominant policy-makers in the Democratic administration. “Not everyone is going to agree with each other, and not all of them are going to agree with me?...
...court for 36 minutes against Brown.Harris earned a double-double by going 5-for-12 from inside, 2-for-4 on the free throw line and grabbing 11 rebounds. In addition to the climactic stuff of Brown forward Matt Mullery, Harris contributed two more blocks during the second to maintain the Crimson’s hyped-up defensive rhythm.“Evan was doing a really good job for us,” Amaker said. “At times we were kind of four perimeter players and Evan. We kind of put him in the hole there...
...question now is what Obama and his team learn from this experience. As he tries to maintain the consensus for another bank bailout, entitlement reform and perhaps health care reform, will he build his legislative coalitions from the left, as he did with the stimulus? Or construct them more with a centrist audience in mind...
Remaining unbeaten in any sport over more than fifteen years is almost unthinkable. Yet on Feb. 5, nearly three months after beating Roy Jones Jr at Madison Square Garden to maintain his 46-0 professional record, boxer Joe Calzaghe announced his retirement. Calzaghe hangs up his gloves as the best British boxer of his generation and, arguably, the greatest British champ of all time. Calzaghe, who held the WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF super-middleweight belts during his 16-year career, said he had thought "long and hard" about retiring but insisted it was the correct decision. Trained...
...compromise, such as the education provisions, could be reinserted in negotiations with the House over the final version. Nelson is aware of the risk but plans to fight tooth and nail to protect his deal. "The President wants bipartisan support," he noted. "And to get it, you have to maintain something comparable to what we're talking about...