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...taking everything I have not to walk out of this meeting right now,” said UC Parliamentarian Eric N. Hysen ’11 during the debate on the UC Reform Act of 2009 which followed the vote on social spaces. Flores left the meeting to “get some air,” leaving Sarafa and later UC Secretary Doug Lloyd ’09 to oversee the remaining business on the agenda. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
...gratifying to see how two very fine artistic groups, artistic communities even, came together to present something jointly,” he says. Kapusta has few complaints about the arts at Harvard. While the youthful nature of the joint program with the NEC provides logistical challenges, Kapusta anticipates calendar reform and the maturing of the program will be able to remedy those issues. His only other “dream” for Harvard would be a performance space more suited to operatic performances. “Both [Harvard opera] companies perform in a dining hall...
...target of political competition between the Democrats and Republicans, and many in the community believe it is time for them to be represented on the nation's highest court. Republicans briefly made gains with them under Bush, but have lost ground recently; amid the battle over immigration reform, a majority of Hispanics backed Obama in the 2008 election. Naming Sotomayor would be a particularly big blow to the GOP, which has suffered a string of them lately...
...biggest ways to raise money to pay for health-care reform is also the most politically delicate: taxing employer-provided health benefits. It's an idea that Obama criticized when his opponent John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign, but one that his top White House advisers now say should remain on the table. And it is an approach that Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says he is considering...
...Such choices get to the real truth behind the cold hard numbers of health-care reform. Every one of them is a political calculation, one that pits one constituency against another. Can lawmakers really balance the books on health-care reform? "You can do it," says former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, a leading voice in the health-care-reform effort. "It's just a matter of how much pain you want to endure...