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...years to buy out the parcels of land required to begin construction.The College intended to use the extra space afforded by Quincy to diminish overcrowding and to devote the other two Houses to increasing the number of admitted students. The University opened the $4 million health center—snow called University Health Services—on the corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets in the fall of 1961, putting Harvard’s health services among the eight “most advanced and efficient” of all American universities, Dana L. Farnsworth, former Director of University...
President Bush followed a well-worn path to the Goldman Sachs well when he tapped Hank Paulson, the firm's CEO since 1999, to succeed John Snow as Treasury Secretary. Across Wall Street, they are hoping that Paulson can bring a gravitas to the job that has been missing since the tenures of Larry Summers and another former Goldman executive, Robert Rubin, both of whom served under President Clinton...
...there is no guarantee that Paulson can live up to his reputation as a get-it-done boss. "We'll have to see if he signed a pre-nup," says Ethan Harris, chief economist at Lehman Brothers. That's a pointed reference to the limited role that Snow was allowed to play in shaping economic policy under Bush, who has preferred to keep his own counsel and that of Vice President Cheney and top adviser Karl Rove. Snow was widely seen as a pitchman for policies that others wrote...
...Next came Snow, the former CSX Corp. executive. His tenure has been in some ways just as anticlimactic as O'Neill's, while perhaps inspiring even less confidence. He had a tendency early on to say things that spooked the markets, leading some on Wall Street and on K Street to wonder whether he understood them. When the economy flagged a bit, Snow was a less than inspiring presence on TV. And by the time the first term ended, White House officials were leaking widely that he too would soon be going - so widely that Bush decided...
...even Bush may be losing his patience. Which raises the question: If Snow goes, who gets to ride into the sunset as Bush's (presumably) last Treasury chief? The choice will tell us a couple of things...