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...called Senator Hillary Clinton a “monster” last March, and it cost her her position in President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign. Now, it seems, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Samantha Power has been invited back into the fold—she’s reviewing the State Department, which Clinton is expected to lead, for Obama’s transition team. Since mid-November, Obama’s transition Web site has listed Power among the officials selected by the president-elect’s office to review national security agencies...
Other faculty selected from the Kennedy School include Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy Samantha Power for the National Security Team and the State Department; Public Policy Lecturer Linda Bilmes for the Department of Veterans Affairs; Science and International Affairs Professor Ashton B. Carter for the National Security Team and Department of Defense; and Public Policy Professor Jeffrey B. Liebman for the Executive Office of the President...
...preparing students for real life so that they don’t come out [of Harvard] and become bewildered.” In addition to preparing students for the challenges of living on their own, the seminars give the Adams community an opportunity to interact in an informal setting. Samantha L. Houston ’11 says the seminars “foster a sense of community as far as getting to know people in the house.” In Palfrey’s view, the seminars are just as much about practical skills as they are about personal...
...appointments on the team. Sewall joins the team after having advised the Obama campaign on foreign policy and national security issues since 2007. She currently serves as the faculty director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Kennedy School institute once directed by former Obama campaign adviser Samantha Power. The agency review working group that Sewall will head is charged with managing and reviewing appointments to the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security, among others. Lois E. Andreasen, the executive director of the Carr Center, said that Sewall’s colleagues at the center...
...speak Dutch, but we think the name means cute," says Kuala Lumpur native Jenny Chong, 32, who, along with friends (and former McCann Erickson advertising-agency colleagues) Jessy Yap and Samantha Wong, both 26, runs Mooie, the funkiest fashion destination in the Malaysian capital. On display is a wide range of Asian fashion labels, along with bandbox-striped changing rooms and blackboard walls on which the trio chalk up monthly messages informed by their design backgrounds. "We like to be creative in everything we do," Chong says...