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...speech full of criticism for President Barack Obama's stimulus plan, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal singled out one program for particular scorn. "Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington," Jindal said, deriding the $140 million appropriated to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for "something called volcano-monitoring" as one of the most egregious bits of pork to lard up the $787 billion stimulus package. But to those who live under the looming threat of flowing lava, it was a poor punch line. "Does the governor have a volcano in his backyard...
...presidential administration. More than a decade ago, Carter served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy for three years during the Clinton administration. As Assistant Secretary of Defense, he dealt with the possession of weapons of mass destruction in the United States and abroad. In particular, Carter worked toward the removal of nuclear weapons from parts of the former Soviet Union and managed military planning during the U.S.’s response to North Korea’s growing nuclear program in 1994. Carter also oversaw the Department of Defense’s Counterproliferation Initiative and managed...
...standard notions people have,” says Caroline Light, lecturer and director of studies in the Women, Gender and Sexuality department. “It’s a tough question: how do we incorporate everyone and not just treat everyone like little commodified pieces of diversity, particularly when it comes to representations of the gay and lesbian community?”Light, who has never seen the fashion show, believes that the image of a drag queen might be particularly problematic. She suggests that the use of more sexual ambiguous models might be a more effective...
...second home,” “it’s so diverse,” and “Expos rocks.” The students’ protest stemmed from allegations about the HEI’s treatment of workers, and in particular accusations of high worker injury rates, anti-union intimidation, and low wages, according to John F. Bowman ’11, one of the protest’s organizers. Bowman said that Harvard has at least $69.9 million invested in HEI, though the actual investment may be larger. The students launched the protest following...
...life,” O’Connor recalls. “That’s 45 minutes from home. I grew up being a Big Red wrestling fan.” He loved his Cornell visit, but out of all of his recruiting trips, one stood out in particular. In Cambridge, O’Connor felt some sort of mysterious Crimson calling. Harvard seemed to make sense on paper, but there was something else that he couldn’t pinpoint. “They had a great program,” he said of Harvard...