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...Following Obama attorney Greg Craig's exit, we need an analysis of who "won" in this reversal of campaign promises [Nov. 30]. Why did Craig and his team, who were carrying out Obama's original promises, lose? What does this portend for the shape of the Obama Administration long-term? William Gloege Santa Maria, Calif...
...BUNNING, Republican Senator from Kentucky, to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke during a Dec. 3 Senate Banking Committee hearing on Bernanke's nomination for a second term. Bunning criticized Bernanke for deeming some companies "too big to fail...
...largely thanks to support from the country's impoverished indigenous majority. Morales won more than 60% of the vote, and his leftist Movement Toward Socialism Party secured majorities in both the 36-seat Senate and 130-member lower house. The decisive victory secures Morales another five-year term and allows him to push for further social and economic reforms. While opponents worry that he will centralize power and align himself politically with Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, Morales' re-election brings stability to a country notorious for coups: it had five Presidents in five years before he came to power...
Wherever your travels take you over Harvard's first J-Term, we hope you have a safe, happy journey...
...high as the Kremlin - about the squalid conditions in the country's jails and bureaucratic incompetence. But it has also renewed focus on an odious criminal practice that embodies what President Dmitry Medvedev describes as the "legal nihilism" pervading the country. It's known as reiderstvo, or "raiding," a term that describes an array of illegal tactics - including identity theft, forgery, bribery and physical intimidation - used by corrupt policemen, tax officials, lawyers and financiers to seize a person's business or property. (See pictures of Hillary Clinton in Russia...