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...head of the TARP oversight panel, Elizabeth Warren has been an extremely effective and influential monitor of one of the consequential economic programs in history, and in this role she has successfully and effectively put a spotlight on issues of great significance," said Law School Professor Lucian A. Bebchuk, who has written prolifically about TARP and executive pay, in an e-mailed statement from abroad...
...goal of losing 25 lb. in three months so she wouldn't have to cough up the $200 she had pledged to an anti-charity. Because there's such an easy out, Karlan encourages people to assign an independent referee such as a friend or co-worker to monitor their progress. Next year, the site will begin partnering with corporations like Staples that want to use the platform to help motivate employees to achieve performance-related goals...
...first time I talked to Caleb on the phone, I had my editor sit next to me to monitor the call. We had already decided that I wasn’t going to tell Caleb about the presidential angle of my story. My editor was there to make sure that I struck the right balance and told just enough of the truth...
...Aides to President Obama, by contrast, have charted a more nuanced course, alternately embracing and dismissing the polls. During a recent meeting with reporters, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs compared the President's daily approval ratings to a heart monitor, saying, "I don't put a lot of stake in, never have, in the EKG that is the daily Gallup trend." By contrast, senior aide David Axelrod often mentions poll numbers, on everything from the rising international reputation of the United States to the resilience of Obama's personal likability numbers. "Every poll I've seen suggests that even among those...
...young people, had gone away, along with the minions of Obama organizers. "I think that we all thought, and I think that the President thought, that they would stay with it because we would create this movement," explained Lake, at a recent reporter briefing organized by the Christian Science Monitor. In fact, the enthusiasm gap bodes poorly for 2010, when Obama will be trying to minimize losses in the House and the Senate. According to the recent Battleground poll, just under two-thirds of Democrats say they are extremely likely to vote in upcoming elections, compared to 77% of Republicans...