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Reached in New York last night, Barro confirmed that he has accepted Columbia's offer, but declined further comment...
Harvard spokesperson Alex Huppe said as of yesterday afternoon he was uncertain if Barro had accepted Columbia's offer. Bell Professor of Economics Jeffrey G. Williamson, chair of Harvard's economics department, could not be reached for comment...
Clarida said Barro's offer awaits Columbia's standard university-wide review, but added that opposition to his appointment is unlikely...
With all the talk this past year about colleges offering more "competitive" financial aid packages to attract more meritorious and promising applicants, the problem of colleges maintaining need-blind admissions policies and the University of Pennsylvania's recent decision to offer merit-based financial aid, the premise behind financial aid systems is being seriously threatened...
...Fine words, but the President had little to offer in the way of action. None of the solutions being proposed in Congress -- raising taxes, raising the retirement age or allowing retirees to gamble a portion of their payroll -- received his stamp of approval. Which means, according to White House correspondent Karen Tumulty, that we won't see a Clinton Social Security plan this year -- if at all. "He may have learned some of the lessons of health care," says Tumulty. "You do things slowly." Hopefully for Clinton, the system will be successfully tweaked by August 19, 2011 -- his 65th birthday...