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...Obama have a responsibility to the millions of Democrats who have participated in the election to maintain a basic level of civility. This applies equally to the candidates and their staffers and advisors. The sort of personal animosity that motivated Obama’s advisor and Kennedy School professor Samantha Power’s comment last week, calling Clinton a “monster,” simply cannot be tolerated. Otherwise, this race risks devolving into nothing more than a flurry of negative advertising, which hurts the Democrats’ chance of achieving the far more fundamental goal: defeating...
...looked for an instant response, and it came in the form of three victories in the top three positions. At No. 2, Peterzan defeated Katya Mirnovea 6-4, 6-0, while Ko took three sets to dispatch her opponent 1-6, 7-6, 7-6 at No. 1. Freshman Samantha Rosekrans secured a tough 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 win at No. 3 to give Harvard hope of victory...
...Samantha Power, a professor at the Kennedy School and human rights advocate, has resigned as a top foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview with a British newspaper on Friday. Power’s statement, which she made to a reporter for The Scotsman, led to swift condemnation from the Clinton campaign and a disavowal from Obama. Power has since apologized to both campaigns, saying that the remarks were “inexcusable” and “at marked variance from my oft-stated admiration...
...Obama's losses to Hillary Clinton in the March 4 Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island primaries were bookended by incidents involving Obama policy advisors, Austan Goolsbee and Samantha Power, who became enmeshed in controversies involving some of the most significant issues of the campaign: NAFTA, the Iraq War, and Obama's professed rejection of negative campaign tactics...
...Goolsbee and Power have much in common. Both are affiliated with leading academic institutions - Austan Goolsbee is an economics professor at the University of Chicago, and Samantha Power is a foreign policy expert at Harvard (as well as a columnist for TIME). Both joined Obama's team early on as the senior advisors within their policy areas, and, both enjoyed warm personal relationships with the candidate and the political professionals surrounding...