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...formal agreements have come out of Harvard’s discussions with the White House, but administrators said they hope to streamline the recruitment process for government employers.“We’re working on trying to make the connection between students and public service careers smoother,” Faust said...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Faust Renews Call for Service | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...headed, a choice between pragmatism and ideology. Both candidates are excellent. Rubio, a former speaker of the Florida house, is young, handsome, enthusiastic and articulate in an unpackaged, spontaneous way. Crist has been, by almost every account, a popular and successful governor. He is more the traditional politician, smoother than glass. "I smile a lot," the governor told me, sitting on the patio of his official Tallahassee mansion. "I'm a happy warrior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Florida's Red-Meat Republican Primary | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...first joint address to Congress by one of the party's rising stars, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, was a "disaster for the Republican Party," as conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks put it. The installation of a new party chairman, Michael Steele, could have gone a lot smoother - say, minus the cat fight with Rush Limbaugh or Steele's insulting both the party's moderate wing (he threatened to back primary opponents for supporters of Obama's stimulus) and its social conservatives (he told GQ magazine that abortion is an "individual choice"). The party's 2008 vice-presidential nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Floundering GOP Looks for a Turnaround | 4/14/2009 | See Source »

...Which is not to say that appearances don't matter at all. Geithner was chosen as Treasury Secretary over the rough-edged but more experienced former Treasury chief Larry Summers in part because Geithner was considered a smoother salesman. And Geithner will always be saddled with the hard-to-explain $34,000 tax shortfall that almost cost him the nomination. For now, though, Democrats are defending the Treasury Secretary against the bad reviews. "Every Administration official responding to this economic crisis, especially Treasury Secretary Geithner given his role, is working under the equivalent of an electron microscope that dramatically magnifies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geithner Tries to Resell the Bank Plan — and Himself | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...freedom fighter, anything that any group—especially the United States military—does with regard to its prisoners will make waves for global security policy and conflict prevention strategies. For that reason, post-Guantánamo detainment must be approached in a much smoother and cautious fashion than similar hot-button issues have been in the past...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Guantánamania | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

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