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...that he says makes him particularly sensitive to the community’s needs, even if that means reining in spending. During his time in local government, he has gained a reputation as a consensus builder and a point-person for Cambridge when the city negotiates with Harvard and MIT...
...Maher’s emphasis on building bridges and forging technocratic compromises has been on display as he encourages cooperation in the city’s delicate relationship with Harvard and MIT...
...socialized-medicine plan." But if you ask him how he did it, as I did during an Iowa campaign swing, Romney becomes effusive. It may be that this tale from Massachusetts reveals what kind of President Romney could be. "He was incredibly impressive, with his intellect, his ability," says MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber, a Democrat who advised Romney and who has since had a hand in the Massachusetts-style health-care plans put forward this year by Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards. "If there is anything that qualifies him to be President of the United States...
That was the bit of analysis that changed everything. Gruber ran the numbers at MIT: universal coverage would be expensive, but so would any half-measure. Romney could simply expand the existing system and, by doing so, cover about one-third more people. Or he could cover everyone by including an "individual mandate," a controversial measure requiring people to buy insurance and offering subsidies to those who couldn't afford it. The price tag would be about one-third higher. "I began by saying, Well, maybe we could help half the people that don't have insurance, maybe we could...
...Idea of Professor Negroponte - co-founder in 1985 of MIT's influential Media Lab - is the development and distribution of a high-quality, low-cost laptop to potentially hundreds of millions of children throughout the developing world...