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...HUGE RISK TO BE AT THE HEAD OF THIS AGENCY? IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, YOU GET BLAMED. IF NOTHING HAPPENS, YOU GET BLAMED FOR FRIGHTENING EVERYBODY. I don't think you can do this job because you are seeking to obtain glory or you think you are going to wind up getting a pat on the back. It is the nature of the job that success is not really noticeable...
...famous National Bureau of Economic Research conference in January that discrimination has become a less significant factor in modern times, the exclusive selection of members from the tight-knit all-white, all-male group for top financial positions demonstrates otherwise. It is difficult for qualified women and minorities to obtain high-powered positions in part because private equity—the field in which the Harvard Management Company president and board members are likely to come from—is a notoriously insular field (which usually does not include minorities or women). Hopefully recent events have since forced Summers...
Morris wrote that Google needs to obtain permission from publishers before using their work. While she wrote that it may be impractical to ask every publisher, Google should ask permission through collective licensing organizations...
...order to obtain the day pass, Graff said that he made over 30 phone calls, to no avail. Throughout the whole process, Graff updated his blog about his application status...
...wrong, unconstitutional, and harmful to the United States’ already tarnished international reputation—it’s politically reckless. Rendition is a euphemism for abducting terrorism suspects without any vestige of due process and shipping them off to countries that are known to torture prisoners to obtain intelligence. By “rending” terrorism suspects to nations including Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Pakistan—each of which has been identified by the State Department as routinely employing torture in interrogation—the U.S. is absolved of any technical guilt of torture...