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...additional oversight of the buying and selling of Wall Street's toxic mortgage-backed securities? In the simplest terms, it was House Minority Leader John Boehner's surprising declaration at the White House meeting that his caucus does not support the deal and that alternatives should be considered. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demanded that Boehner get at least half of his caucus - or 100 members - to vote for the legislation so that Democrats are not left passing this still very unpopular bill by themselves less than two months before the election. Boehner simply doesn't have the votes...
...asking Congress for $700 billion overnight when lawmakers have been unable for years to find funds for all sorts of other national priorities provoked a bitter and bipartisan backlash. "Paulson confused venture-capital behavior with leading a free society," says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. "I don't know why Bernanke thinks a problem largely created by the Fed and the Treasury is something that only the Fed and the Treasury are smart enough to fix." Others went further: "It's financial socialism," Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky told Paulson and Bernanke at a stormy Senate Banking Committee hearing...
...leader. The University aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on campus by 30 percent by 2016. Announced in July, the initiative comes from recommendations made by the Greenhouse Gas Task Force convened last spring and co-headed by Kennedy School Professor William C. Clark. Clark said that a guest speaker of Gore’s status and the location of the event in Tercentenary Theater reflects that the issue is receiving an appropriate amount of attention from the President’s office. He praised Faust for implementing the recommendations of the task force, and emphasizing the research possibilities...
Beer School is in now session. The Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub kicked off its first evening of food and drink yesterday with guest speaker Jonathan A. Cadoux, the founder of Peak Organic Brewing Company. Just after 5 p.m. a crowd of mostly undergraduates gathered at the pub to hear Cadoux speak about his brewery and to taste four of its signature beers. Bread, cheese, nuts and fruit were paired to each beer’s distinct flavor. Last night’s monthly beer school continued the pub’s popular series begun last year that...
...secular university, issues of faith get pushed to the side,” Birdsall added. “I’m really excited to see Harvard recognizing faith in this setting.” The day also featured Washington Post journalist Sally Quinn as the keynote speaker. Along with Jon Meacham—the editor of Newsweek—Quinn co-founded the blog “On Faith,” which is a forum for discussion of religious issues for the two media outlets. Both journalists moderated the opening panel, which featured undergraduates of different faiths...