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...doesn't help that Greenspan is now caught in the partisan warfare over Social Security privatization and the budget deficit. His credibility is being challenged by the likes of Senate minority leader Harry Reid, who in March called him "one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington." Just last week, during a Senate Budget Committee hearing, Greenspan essentially apologized for providing what Senator Paul Sarbanes called "a green light" for the 2001 tax cuts. "If that is the way it was interpreted, I missed it," Greenspan said of his support. "I did not intend it that...
...Stubborn or Sour? Columnist Joe Klein's "the creative Stubbornness of Harry Reid" [March 28], on the Senate minority leader's success in blocking Republican-sponsored legislation, should have been called "The Sour-Grapes Obstructionism of Harry Reid." Why glorify Reid's antics when there is so much that needs to be accomplished in Washington? Donald Nagy Chino Valley, Arizona...
...When the G.O.P. crushed former minority leader Tom Daschle's bid for re-election, the Republicans thought they had broken the back of the Democratic resistance. But as Klein pointed out, the soft-spoken and creatively stubborn Reid has marshaled his troops much as Robert E. Lee did and is winning on the battlegrounds of his choosing. It remains to be seen whether, like Lee, Reid will eventually fall or Americans will realize that control of all three branches of government by a single party leads to extremism. Del Hindle High Ridge, Missouri...
When you're the Senate Democratic Leader, important people see you all the time. Still, last Thursday, when former San Francisco 49er's quarterback Steve Young came to pitch the virtues of geothermal energy and then Miss Nevada stopped by, Nevada Senator Harry Reid was having a good day. In between his more exciting meetings, he sat down for an interview with TIME's Massimo Calabresi and Perry Bacon...
...meeting, Summers also named this year’s new Harvard College Professors. The new recipients of the title—the most distinguished a professor can attain at the College—are Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile, and Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer...