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...specific date for its release has yet been set.Until it is published, the exact contents of the Task Force’s report will remain a mystery to students and other members of the Harvard arts community. While the Task Force has taken into account peer institutions, past Harvard reforms, and student opinions, all that can be certain at this point is that, like all institutional reforms at Harvard, the implementation of Task Force’s findings will take time.PEERING AROUNDEnglish professor and Task Force head Stephen J. Greenblatt and several other members declined to offer details...
...chief of staff. Emanuel is a win-at-any-cost partisan but not an ideologue; in his earlier White House stint as a top aide to Clinton, he was a key figure in shepherding through the North American Free Trade Agreement, a crime bill and welfare reform - none of them popular with the Democratic Party's liberal base. The appointment of someone who has been a savvy operator at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue also shows that, for all Obama's talk of change, he does not intend to make the mistake of earlier Presidents who ran as outsiders...
...with an economic crisis - Obama knows he doesn't have time on his side. His top priority will be stabilizing the financial system, he said in an interview with CNN shortly before the election, followed by investing in renewable energy, universal health care, middle-class tax cuts and education reform. Then there are the other things he talked about at various points in the campaign: closing Guantánamo, withdrawing from Iraq, renegotiating trade deals, reforming immigration. How quickly those now secondary goals will follow is a major question and source of debate among Obama's advisers. Publicly, they insist...
...After his death in 1938 (of liver disease, believed to be caused by heavy drinking), the reform program he had enacted - most important, secularism and the concept of a monoethnic state - became an official ideology called Kemalism. It is enshrined in the constitution as an inviolable founding principle. Atatürk's mausoleum in Ankara has become a hallowed place for his followers. Last year hundreds of thousands of secularists staged an antigovernment rally in front...