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After visiting a refugee camp in Darfur, Cambridge’s congressional representative called last week for Harvard to divest funds from companies with business ties to the Sudanese government. In an interview from Ghana with the Boston Herald, U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano, D-Mass., said the University should “do what’s right” and sever financial connections to the Khartoum regime, which the U.S. government has accused of supporting genocide. This isn’t the first time Capuano has broached the divestment issue. Last April, he asked public pension boards in Massachusetts...
It’s time for Harvard to destroy the old stigmas and rebuild its fan rep...
...Shockey's career is a case study in how the game works. When he left Capitol Hill for the lobbying world in 1999-after spending more than eight years working for Rep. Jerry Lewis, a Republican from California who had chaired key subcommittees-many of his new clients, including muncipalities, hospitals and lesser-known universities, were from Lewis's district. After years of getting paid to represent them on the Hill, he was now getting paid a lot more to represent them on the Hill...
...side. "A lot of people supporting Blunt are doing so hoping for consistency," said one senior leadership aide the morning before the vote. "They want someone who knows how to run a conference and who has experience in that role." The real agent for change in the race was Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona, who had stayed true to his roots as a member of the class of 1994, which swept Democrats out of power on a promise of (literally) cleaning house. Still, Shadegg was never a serious contender, too inexperienced in leadership to quell concerns about his election-year...
...where incumbency usually rules the day, Boehner's second-round win by a margin of 122-109 against front-runner and current Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri for the party's number two spot amounted to storming the Bastille. "Boehner looked as shocked as all of us," said Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona after the vote. But at the same time, the Ohioan's own longstanding and close ties to K Street lobbyists virtually guarantees that he'll keep the fundraising machine DeLay so skillfully built up running smoothly as his party heads to November's expensive political battles...