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James L. Frazier, an assistant strength coach for University of Iowa football, will become the director of Harvard’s strength and conditioning program, Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise announced yesterday...
...decline recently due to work permit complications. “It was a really painful situation,” Raginskaya said. “There is so much value to interacting with different people and different business practices.” According to U.S. State Department spokesman Robert A. McInturff, student work permits are processed through the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. McInturff said that complications regarding the youth mobility program fall under the jurisdiction of the Bureau. Christopher W. Reid, the interim CES Student Programs Coordinator, said that he has been in constant contact with both the State...
Hours after the lowest point of his boss's first two weeks in office, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ended the first chapter of the Obama presidency and launched the second. At the end of his morning staff meeting - where his team had gathered to discuss the handling of issues from the first fortnight, including Tom Daschle's unexpected failure to join the Cabinet because of tax-compliance problems - Gibbs reminded members of his team what they had come to Washington...
...There was no way of guessing then how integral a role Gibbs would play in that effort. But it turned out to be a vital one. "There isn't a single decision that the President has formed in the course of his campaign or the presidency that Robert didn't weigh in on," says Valerie Jarrett, one of Obama's most senior advisers...
...recalls, the message was received as if it had come from Obama himself, given the frequency with which the two men talk. Gibbs and Obama have developed what Pete Rouse, another top aide, calls a "back-and-forth, locker-room camaraderie" that includes occasional heated arguments with raised voices. "Robert will never pull his punches with the President," says Rouse. They tease each other frequently: asked by Jarrett to describe Gibbs' sense of humor for Time, Obama deadpanned, "Robert is very funny, but I can't remember any of his jokes...