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Mount took over as interim director in September 2008 amidst a financial crisis that shook Harvard’s e-recruiting program. The declining number of job opportunities in banking—coupled with growing concern about a perceived lack of support for careers outside of finance—led Mount to try to “[turn] up the volume on diverse career opportunities,” she says...
Obama should not be afraid to drop the 4,500 pages of Democratic health legislation. He should commit to work in an open, bipartisan manner on new legislation that would earn public support both for its substance and through the transparent process by which it is crafted. (See pictures of Obama's first year in the White House...
Republicans have much less to lose than the President does. If they offer good solutions and work with Democrats to find areas of agreement, they will have met the country's test for bipartisanship. If they refuse to support Big Government, big-spending legislation, they will have a vast majority of the country on their side...
...between theory and reality. Even if Obama were correct that a nuclear rebirth is needed to address the climate crisis - and he isn't correct - the fact is that the rebirth isn't happening. Despite the prospect of new taxpayer guarantees - and the cradle-to-grave subsidies that already support this 50-year-old industry at the federal and state level - utilities keep scrapping or delaying plans for new reactors...
...Ultimately, the U.S. may be heading toward a similar brand of nuclear socialism. Obama talks about massive nuclear subsidies as just one part of his larger clean-energy agenda, but he hasn't made them contingent on GOP support for that larger agenda. So the nuclear subsidies are sure to pass, while the larger agenda is likely to stall. Eventually, extravagant government largesse might create a nuclear rebirth of sorts - but it might end up strangling better solutions in their cribs or prevent them from ever being born...