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...program. "The government plan continues to face a number of hurdles, including too much government overhang," says Scott Talbott of the industry group Financial Services Roundtable. Government officials say the language in a recent Senate bill requiring recipients of government "public-private" dollars to submit to oversight by the special investigator of bank-bailout funds is scaring away both sides of potential deals. "We've run into reluctance on the part of buyers and sellers," says an official. (See pictures of retailers that have gone out of business...
...irked affected MCB researchers who feel the move suggests an underlying bias towards more lucrative research.“I think it sends a message. It’s one thing to build a big stem cell institution in Allston, where you’re launching a whole special project,” said Jim Henle, an MCB lab administrator in Fairchild, in a March interview. “It’s another thing to displace a whole department and send them to who-knows-what netherland.”But the administration continues to say that no fields...
...None of this is to say the FBI can't do a good job at counterterrorism. On the contrary, the FBI investigated the 1998 African bombings, breaking open our understanding of al-Qaeda. Special agents in the FBI's New York office came to know al-Qaeda as well as anyone in the government. However, the FBI was forced to take a backseat when the CIA resorted to abusive interrogations, depriving us of expertise we so badly needed...
...soon thereafter impeached. While we demanded more accountability among elected officials, we asked for more freedom for all Americans. This year could have been an important one in terms of securing the right to marriage for gay couples, with according referenda on the ballot in several states. Unfortunately, special interest groups had such an influence that the majority of people in those states voted to deny rights to a significant minority. We were strongly against Prop 8 in California and its equivalent in other states; now, we hope that these referenda will be overturned in the future, for these couples...
...lives toiling with their minds. We will find employment as professors, lawyers, businessmen, authors, artists, and politicians. We should remember that these professions are still crafts; they are still assemblies of knowledge which have been passed down through generations in order to express the constructive urge that makes humanity special. Harvard, after all, is a trade school for the craft of thinking, and its students are no more than a privileged class of apprentices who mimic the techniques, manners, and values of their masters. Filling out a Selective Service registration form, the great essayist and country farmer E. B. White...