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...Harvard Kennedy School is working with the White House Office of Personnel Management to find its graduates public service jobs on a national level. Still, there is much more to be done. All facets of the University, from academic departments to student organizations, should be involved in this community process of promoting public service careers...
...better job reaching out to the White House," concedes Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. Manley says Reid decided to pull the bill when he couldn't get an agreement from the Republican leadership to proceed despite the bipartisan backing of the bill. "Reid decided to simplify this process and put forth fully paid-for measures that have bipartisan support," Manley says. (Watch a video about why Harry Reid encouraged Obama to run for President...
...partisan gridlock in D.C." Though many of the provisions in the smaller bill are bipartisan - such as one that provided payroll tax breaks to companies with new hires co-authored by New York's Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Senate Democrat, and Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican - the process by which Reid yanked the bill made for a lot of bitter feelings. "To squander [the Baucus-Grassley bill] is partisan politics trumping everything else," Hatch told ABC News Friday...
...progressive Senators against the bill, saying it gave too much away to Republicans and focused too heavily on tax cuts that had little to do with job creation. "Durbin was just trying to curry favor with the liberals," says a senior Senate Democratic aide closely involved in the process. "Reid is hampered by Durbin and Schumer picking over his corpse right now - it's really ugly...
Political leaders typically change course not because they change their philosophy, but because the cost-benefit ratio in maintaining the status quo no longer makes sense. That was true for Rabin - who embraced the Oslo process after calculating that Israel could not forever count on unconditional U.S. support - and also for Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Rabin's cost-benefit analysis told him that Israel's best interests required moving toward a two-state solution from a position of strength, and the Palestinian leadership recognized that, as much as they desired a return to the homes and land they lost...