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...Sen. Charles E. “Chuck” Schumer ’71 addressed the Democratic Party’s need to achieve “concrete goals” in a forum at the Kennedy School of Government on Friday. Referring to his book “Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority One Family at a Time,” Schumer, the senior senator from New York, named the most pressing problems facing the middle class today. The book, published in January, outlines 11 “concrete goals,” each of which...
...with the consensus of the intelligence community." The report said that Feith's shop exaggerated the purported links between Saddam Hussein's government and al-Qaeda. "That was the argument that was used to make the sale to the American people about the need to go to war," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the armed services committee. He said the Feith's work, "which was wrong, which was distorted, which was inappropriate ... is something which is highly disturbing...
...Senators who didn't think his past 30 months in command of U.S. ground forces in Iraq warrants his elevation to Army chief of staff. While he did get the promotion, the Senate vote of 83-to-14 was the poorest showing for an Army chief since Vietnam. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Casey should be held accountable for giving Congress too-rosy assessments of the war as the situation there spiraled downward into chaos. "I have questioned in the past and question today a number of decisions and judgments that Gen. Casey has made in the past...
Sixteen years after Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) became the first African-American to lead the Harvard Law Review (HLR), Andrew M. Crespo ’05 has been elected the journal’s first Hispanic president in 120 years. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
CORRECTION The Feb. 6 news article "First Hispanic To Lead Harvard Law Review" incorrectly stated that Sen. Barack H. Obama (D-Ill.) was elected to lead the Harvard Law Review in 1991, when in fact he became the group's president in 1990. The same article also erroneously referred to the Review's "newsroom." The student-edited legal periodical does not maintain a newsroom at its Gannett House headquarters...