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Another big difference between the 9/11 commission and the FCIC is the transparency of the process. The 9/11 commission, because it involved national security, held many of its hearings in private and then at the end produced a massive report. The FCIC says it will hold most of its hearings in public, and will quickly release any information it uncovers. Two members of the panel, Keith Hennessey and Byron Georgiou, have their own blogs. Last week, Hennessey, who was a White House economics adviser to President George W. Bush, asked readers what he should be asking bank CEOs...
Harvard is borrowing $480 million to refinance its debt and to fund capital projects on campus, including the construction of a new Harvard Law School building, according to a credit rating report released Friday by Moody's Investors Service...
...Moody's credit rating report issued last April said that Harvard was considering halving its capital spending and new debt issuance, and the University recently announced that it would be halting construction of its Allston Science Complex, the roughly $1 billion cornerstone of the University's future campus across the Charles River...
...Thursday, a BBC television program called Spotlight issued a report accusing First Minister Peter Robinson's wife Iris of breaking the law by failing to disclose her financial interest in a 2008 business deal that helped launch the café. The report alleged that Iris Robinson - then age 59 and, like her husband, a well-known politician in Northern Ireland - had obtained $80,000 from two property developers for a 19-year-old man, Kirk McCambley, with whom she had been having an affair. According to the report, the teenager allegedly used most of the money...
...days later, she reiterated her views, telling a TV interviewer that "just as a murderer can be redeemed by the blood of Christ, so can a homosexual." Gay-rights activists accused her of inciting hatred, and scores of complaints were lodged with the police. According to the Spotlight report, Robinson's relationship with McCambley started before those comments were made. (See pictures of the British army leaving Northern Ireland...