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Where Clinton tried to score points, she largely missed. When their argument over whether Obama had plagiarized lines from his campaign co-chairman, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, the Illinois Senator got the better of the exchange. "You know, this is where we start getting into silly season, in politics, and I think people start getting discouraged about it," Obama said. Clinton rejoined with an attack line that fell flat, and even drew some boos: "You know, lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in, it's change you can Xerox." And the canned...
...Clinton campaign recently accused Obama of plagiarizing after he used parts of the "Just words?" speech given by his friend Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick. But "Just words?" are not the only words that have been borrowed in this campaign...
...billion dollar university endowments and generous research grants, $1 billion can still make a tremendous splash in the life-sciences pool. A new bill in the Massachusetts legislature will provide $1 billion in public funds to life-sciences research. This bill—released by Mass. Gov. Deval L. Patrick ’78 in May of 2007—would allocate $500 million for the construction of research facilities, $250 million for fellowships and grants, and $250 million in tax incentives over the next 10 years. Aimed at promoting Massachusetts as a center for biotechnology and furthering stem cell...
...purpose of “puffing up the endowment to convince the Board of Visitors.” “He has denied more information to myself, newspapers, other delegates, other citizens, than any other person in the Commonwealth of Virginia,” Marshall said. H. Patrick Furman, a law professor at the University of Colorado who worked under Nichol when he served as the dean of Colorado’s law school, said the Board of Visitor’s decision sent a message of intolerance. “If we don’t like your...
...same decade offers a useful precedent. When Rolls-Royce was on the brink of collapse in 1971, Osborne's own Conservative party nationalized the aerospace company, arguing it was crucial for the country's science and industry base. "[Rolls-Royce has] been a main stayer ever since," says Patrick Dunleavy, chairman of the Public Policy Group at the London School of Economics. Not all such government action has worked, however. The nationalization of carmaker British Leyland four years later couldn't stop it "running into the sand," Dunleavy says...