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...Russ Baker has drawn between President No. 41 and the assassination of President No. 35. He also connects the dots between the Bushes and Watergate, which he farfetchedly describes not as a ham-handed act of political espionage but as a carefully orchestrated farce designed to take down President Richard Nixon. It's common knowledge that the Bushes sit at the intersection of America's business and intelligence communities, but Baker takes it further: he sees them as part of a "globally reaching, fundamentally amoral, financial-intelligence-resource apparatus that has never before been properly documented...
...nothing precipitous is going to happen with jobs.” But for some, the hiring halt seems a precursor to more drastic cuts. “It’s not possible to say that no one will be laid off,” said Richard E. Kaufman, a librarian in the psychology department. “I think that prospect is real, and that’s something that should be alarming.” Robyn Ochs, technology and publications specialist in the romance languages department, said she hopes Harvard will employ its resources to protect current staff...
...captain of the basketball team, Duncan spent a year playing the sport in Australia before returning to his hometown in 1992. Within short order, he was garnering national attention for starting an innovative - and successful - public school, Ariel Community Academy. He was tapped by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to run the city's schools in 2001. (Read more about Obama and education...
...outspoken since U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's office filed the 76-page complaint last Tuesday. At various times, he has said that "Illinois is in crisis" and that "when you have all five constitutional officers, when you have members of Congress, when you have the U.S. Senator from Illinois, Richard Durbin, when you have the President-elect urging you to step aside, I think that's about as high...
...that challenged the constitutionality of current U.S. copyright law. In 2007, Lessig announced that he hoped to take his work in a new direction by focusing on political corruption. Although the offer of a professorship had been made over a year ago, according to Law School professor Richard H. Fallon, a member of the hiring committee, the Safra Center’s directorship was only offered this fall. While Lessig said he was excited to return to a grayer, chillier part of the country, he also said his family made the decision to move despite their attachment...