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...would say we're not prepared to do anything about it.' ROBERT GATES, U.S. Defense Secretary, on North Korea's plan to launch a missile by April...
...final numbers will remain unclear until early next week, since staffers who have accepted the package will still have seven days to change their minds, Robert P. Mitchell, the Faculty’s director of communications, wrote in an e-mailed statement yesterday...
...dignity, respectively. “We are one community,” said Daniel B. Becker, an organizer for Service Employees International Union Local 615, which represents custodial workers at Harvard. “We are with you, and you are with us.”After the ceremony, Robert E. Christiano, the associate director of campus operations at HMS, escorted the protestors out of the building.Benjamin J. Oldfield, a medical student, said that he and other students will continue to fight to reemploy the workers.“Harvard says it has trimmed all the fat and the layoffs...
...lifelong academic and writer of such decidedly nonscintillating titles as Survey Nonresponse, Robert M. Groves would seem an unlikely political warrior. Yet President Obama's nomination of Groves to head the Census Bureau and oversee next year's national head count has sent Republicans scrambling to the ramparts. "With the nomination of Robert Groves, President Obama has made clear that he intends to employ the political manipulation of census data for partisan gain," North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry cautioned. Other lawmakers called Groves an "incredibly troubling selection" who must be watched for "statistical sleight of hand...
...here's why Defense Secretary Robert Gates kept discussions on the Pentagon's 2010 budget so secret that he swore the military's high command to silence ahead of the budget's unveiling. Aiming to shift military spending priorities from billion-dollar Cold War-era weapons to the simpler armored vehicles and spy drones needed for the "wars we are in today and scenarios for the years ahead," Gates on Monday proposed, among other things, to end funding of the advanced F-22 Raptor fighter. That cut alone will spark fierce resistance on Capitol Hill, but it's only...