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Before former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby created the OIP in 2002, the College’s policies “discouraged”—and even “criminalized”—term-time international experiences, Kirby wrote in an e-mail...
...this is already happening. University Public Service Week was held last October, and President Drew Faust has expounded many times, including in The Crimson, on the virtues of public service—citing her own time with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as firsthand evidence. Last term, the Institute of Politics hired a career counselor to help students find post-graduation placements in public service. The Harvard Kennedy School is working with the White House Office of Personnel Management to find its graduates public service jobs on a national level. Still, there is much more...
...petty squabble and 15-minute news cycle. While candidate Obama admirably rejected the artifice and showmanship of politics, even the White House now regularly joins the fray, with press secretary Robert Gibbs often using the briefing-room rostrum to score points. Engaging in such antics might produce a short-term high, and might even yield some short-term victories, but it is no way to make friends or achieve anything meaningful for the country...
...partisan loyalty for party-line votes that the White House is unlikely to successfully pick off a handful of GOP moderates on any given issue to create a measure of bipartisanship. And so if the President is going to keep himself from wasting 2010 - and maybe his entire first term - he is going to have to find a way to make the Republican leaders in Congress trust him enough to work with him on a few big issues.See the top 10 Secret Service code names...
...election year. This is to be expected," says a Republican Senate leadership aide. "Remember back in 2006 when [former majority leader] Bill Frist held all those votes where he didn't allow amendments on all those politically tough issues like gay marriage, the death tax and late-term abortion? A lot of good it did us - we lost the Senate. Democrats would do well to remember that example." (See pictures of Obama's State of the Union speech...