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...gathering of powerful economic leaders this weekend, one individual with Harvard roots stood in the place of another. Former Institute of Politics Director and Republican congressman Jim Leach represented President-elect Barack Obama at the Group of 20, or G-20, meeting held at the White House this past weekend to discuss the current worldwide financial crisis. Obama was invited by the White House to attend the summit but declined the opportunity to meet with the world leaders who comprise the international body that focuses on economic issues, opting to send Leach and former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former IOP Director at G-20 | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...agenda. By the turn of the century, tenure had become a hot-button issue that some politicians preferred to avoid. In 1900, the Democratic Party of New York blasted their rivals in the Times for taking up the issue, writing, "We deprecate the tendency manifested by the Republican party of dragging the public school system of the State into politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tenure | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Minnesota's senatorial recount is about to start, there is clearly no love lost between the staffs of Republican Senator Norm Coleman and his Democratic challenger, Al Franken. Weekend press conferences by staffers and lawyers on both sides lobbed accusations at one another, declaring that it was their opponents who were undermining the integrity of Minnesota's election process - a reputation the state is particularly proud of. But what politician would do otherwise? Coleman led Franken by only 206 votes when the unofficial count ended last week. At stake is the size of the Democratic majority in the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleman and Franken: Fighting over the Minnesota Recount | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Last Friday brought notice that the relationship between the two would soon be returning to form when South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint became the first high-profile Republican to lay the blame for McCain's loss on McCain himself. "We have to be honest, and there's a lot of blame to go around," DeMint told a GOP gathering in Myrtle Beach, S.C. "But I have to mention George Bush, and I have to mention Ted Stevens, and I'm afraid I even have to mention John McCain." DeMint then offered a list of McCain's anti-conservative apostasies, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama and McCain Meet: Why They Need Each Other | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

...Sources close to McCain say their man wants to leave the campaign behind and return to the role he forged for himself on Capitol Hill as the leading reformer and bipartisan legislator in the Senate. "John isn't one to wallow in defeat, at least not publicly," says a Republican consultant who knows McCain well. "He lost. It's over. Work is all he really knows, and getting back to work will help him move past losing. And the patriot in him is telling him to help this new President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama and McCain Meet: Why They Need Each Other | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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