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...recent financial crisis has manifested itself in new restrictions on hiring and salaries at the Harvard Kennedy School, Dean David T. Ellwood ’75 announced in a memorandum sent to the school’s faculty on Wednesday...
...stander that moving headquarters from a castle to a rock is kind of a downgrade, for writers from The Harvard Lampoon, this seems to have become part of a seasonal migration. Since the inception of “Saturday Night Live” in 1975, the Lampoon has sent a steady stream of graduates to write for the sketch comedy show broadcast live from Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Center, also known as 30 Rock. There are currently five Lampoon graduates on SNL’s 33-member writing team, which includes all the cast members and producer Lorne Michaels...
...Dick Simpson, a former local elected official who now teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago, counts hundreds of politicians who have been sent to jail since 1971, including 30 aldermen and three of the past seven governors. "The whole mess has to be taken in context," he explains. But even by Chicago standards, Blagojevich seems especially kleptocratic, according to prosecutors. He tried to shake down highway contractors, job seekers and health-care administrators. He talked of holding up bill-signings in exchange for favors - and seemed not to understand when his targets balked at his demands. When...
...Sent New York Times reporter Judith Miller to jail for 78 days for refusing to reveal her sources during the Plame investigation. Editors at the Chicago Tribune blasted Fitzgerald's relentless pursuit of reporters' phone records in a 2005 editorial titled, "Mr. Fitzgerald, Back Off," though the newspaper recently admitted to withholding stories about Blagojevich's case at his request...
...envelope containing anthrax spores was sent to Daschle's Senate office and Sen. Pat Leahy's office, among other locations. Twenty-eight people tested positive for exposure and five died...