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...fact, the most telling Obama appointments have been his economics pick, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers; his environmental pick, former EPA head Carole Browner; and his new health-care czar, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle - all of whom have lengthy Washington résumés and all of whom will be working out of the White House. Daschle's dual titles are the most telling; he was actually nominated to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, but Obama gave him a West Wing job as well to indicate that, unlike previous HHS Secretaries, Daschle is actually supposed...
...million a year to the city. Boston University, which owns half as much land as Harvard, pays $4.6 million—over half of the city’s $8.1 million collected from higher education PILOTs. The city collects $32.4 million annually from PILOTs—a small sum compared to the estimated $350 million that Boston would receive if non-profits were not tax-exempt...
...door—says that juries tend to be sympathetic to his clients. In this case, he was awarded over $50,000 for emotional distress and for the diminution of value of the property, and Haller says that there is a “good possibility” that sum will be doubled or tripled...
...years ago, Blagojevich, the son of a Serbian-born steelworker, seemed to have an almost inspiring résumé. He worked as a dishwasher to pay for college. After graduating from Pepperdine University's law school, he eventually found work as a prosecutor in Cook County, which includes Chicago, frequently handling domestic-abuse cases. He married well; his wife Patti, the daughter of influential Chicago alderman Richard Mell, used her father's political smarts to help Blagojevich win elections - first to Illinois' General Assembly in 1992 then, four years later, to the U. S. House, as the Representative from...
...speech was the argument that Harvard has already paid—and continues to pay—its social debts in kind, so to speak; that the work the University does in educating young people and contributing to the world’s research constitutes an unquantifiable sum far beyond what we might provide with a tax from the endowment. “If the endowment were smaller, we would have to do less,” she noted, and then connected this “less” to a string of unassailable endeavors: stem cell research, public service...