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...legal battle pitting a Harvard Law School professor against a major music industry organization came to yet another standstill last week as the two sides disagreed over the parameters of a hearing originally scheduled to take place last week...
...drew over 100 members of the student body and faculty, according ot Rebecca Ulm, a studio arts and art history major at Brandeis who helped plan the event...
...making this decision the administration seems to be dismissing its value,” said Elia Dota, a senior art history major and head of the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum. “What they don’t get is that the museum is an integral part of academics and an integral part of the discourse in an academic setting...
...events of the past two weeks: President Barack Obama, fresh from sky-high approval ratings and an Inauguration that filled the National Mall, met with Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Disowning any "pride of authorship," he asked both publicly and privately for the two major political parties to work together in Congress on a crucial bill to stimulate the tanking economy. And what happened? While the bill passed by a comfortable margin in the House, it earned not a single vote from a Republican. What's more, 11 Democrats opposed it as well. (See pictures...
...same time, Republicans have a major political incentive to resist working with Obama and the Democrats. Few economists predict that the economy will be fully recovered by the 2010 election, with or without the stimulus, making it all but certain that Republicans will run for re-election against Obama's economic record. Already, such campaign rhetoric has been seeping into the debate. "The only thing this bill will stimulate is more government and more debt," said Representative Mike Pence, a conservative leader. (See pictures of John McCain's presidential campaign...