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...Bush will try lots of little things to release the pressure building up in the Enron pipeline. He has indicated that he will sign the campaign-finance measure if it ever makes it to his desk. Aides indicated last week that he will also get behind efforts to strengthen the rules that require companies to disclose information about hidden liabilities. He will call on Congress to make sure that employees have ways to diversify their retirement savings so that other Enrons don't happen. And with unemployment rising, the former oilman is capping talk of tax cuts and boosting talk...
...signs of a new willingness to move beyond traditional articles of faith, and even to challenge Arafat himself. The latter move, of course, is coming more from his own left flank, where some legislators, activists and intellectuals such as human rights campaigner Mustafa Barghouti have launched a campaign to strengthen Palestinian democracy - a direct challenge to the authoritarian cronyism of Arafat's regime - and a shift back towards non-violent protest against Israel's occupation in what they consider to be an "overly-militarized intifada." And Arafat's own point-man in Jerusalem, the philosophy professor Dr. Sari Nusseibeh...
...medical area at Crosstown,” an area of Roxbury that abuts Harvard-affiliated hospitals and research facilities. For the first time, he specifically called on Harvard and Summers to take an active role in the realization of that goal. The mayor said that such a complex would strengthen the neighborhood and create jobs...
...want to strengthen our partnership with Harvard. I want to invite President Larry Summers to explore what Harvard could do to expand its medical school complex to Crosstown in Roxbury,” Menino said...
...During the tenure of four Radcliffe College presidents, she helped to shape and strengthen Radcliffe’s position as a leading intellectual center for women,” said Drew Gilpin Faust, current dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study...