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Former U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, former Haiti Prime Minister Michèle Pierre-Louis, and former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer are among the six resident fellows who will be joining the Institute of Politics this fall, the IOP announced today...
...career politicians and a political reporter will bring extensive international experience to the Fellows program. Pierre-Louis, who served as the Prime Minister of Haiti from 2008 to 2009, was the second female to hold the post in the country's history. Pines-Paz similarly brings international experience, armed with a résumé that includes positions as the Minister of the Interior and Minister of Science, Culture, and Sport in Israel...
Lingering in the background of these developments were Harvard’s efforts to purchase the Bennett Street Yards, a prime stretch of riverfront property owned by the Massachusetts Transit Authority. The negotiations stretched from 1955 to 1966 and pitted the University against Cambridge City Council officials—particularly Alfred “Big Al” E. Velucci—who were opposed to the idea of a tax-exempt organization such as Harvard taking over an even larger share of lucrative Cambridge real estate...
...months of work were not enough to prime Sprague for her first few races, and the team’s former top skier struggled to hit her stride in the season’s early competitions...
According to Prime Minister François C. A. Fillon, however, “One must assume the juridical risks of one’s convictions.” President Nicolas P.S. Sarkozy thus clarified the “republican” principles that are supposed to undergird this law before the Council of Ministers on May 19: “We are an old nation, which is assembled around a certain idea of the dignity of the person, and in particular, the woman’s dignity, around a certain idea of living together. The integral veil that totally...