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...choose from. Recently, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, no fan of his, compiled a catalog of promises and programs Obama has made during the campaign. Including documentary quotations, the list ran 85 pages. Obama recently told Time's Joe Klein that Job One is the unknowable task of patching and stabilizing the sinking economy, which makes sense because the power of this issue to shape the next presidency is absolute. The financial crisis has already changed Reagan Republicans into bank nationalizers almost overnight. Presidential-transition expert Paul Light calls this the most harrowing environment for a change of Administration since...
...with flying colors. On Monday, he oversaw the rescue and release of two prominent Afghan businessmen who had been kidnapped by a criminal gang and held to ransom for millions of dollars. What remains to be seen, however, is whether he can bring the kidnappers to justice. His next task will be to stop a new round of suicide bombings before they start...
Inspired, Tsim’s next task is to find a fabric store that will allow her to remain on budget. “It’s all about the fabric,” she explains...
...that can “improve the quality of the environment and go a long way to returning natural systems to their ecological functions.”Of course, Harvard’s revised master plan is still plenty controversial—at a meeting of the Allston task force on Monday, residents peppered Harvard’s planners with requests for more detail, leveling criticism at some of the things that Harvard has proposed—such as building two additional roads through the neighborhood—and at things that it hasn’t—anything...
...University, various deans, concentrations, causes, and the FAS and College. For example, a discussion on diversity may be considered by the Committees on Women, Benefits, Continuing Education, Faculty Development and Diversity, and Pedagogical Improvement, as well as by a visiting committee of the overseers or a working group or task force examining the composition of the faculty. Beyond these more official committees, informal groups like the House Masters’ Council or Caucus of Chairs usually weigh in, and a bill often merits the creation of a committee with subcommittees to conduct consultations and meet with still more committees...