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Jane L. Mendillo, who worked at Harvard Management Company (HMC) for 15 years until her departure to run Wellesley College's investments in 2002, will return as HMC's CEO this July, the University announced Thursday...
...Last Thursday, Rendell, South Carolina's Sanford and the governors of Delaware, Nevada and Arizona held a heated conference call with Chertoff to air their complaints. And that same day, the National Governors Association sent letters to President Bush, the House and Senate leadership and congressional appropriators demanding: "If the federal government is going to direct state security practices over traditional state functions such as driver's licenses and identification cards, then the federal government should pay the states' cost of compliance." The question, however, is which cost will be higher for the states: Paying for the new cards...
...conference call Thursday night, spokesman Sean McCormack said the department's initial theory is that this was nothing more than "imprudent curiosity" on the part of employees doing administrative work. Their actions came to light because of computer software, relatively recently installed, that sends out an alert when the files of high-profile individuals are being accessed...
...matter is being turned over to the department's inspector general for further investigation, though it is far from clear what power he has over employees who have already been fired. As of Thursday night, the department had not discussed the matter with Obama himself, but had notified members of his staff of the incidents, and were planning a fuller briefing on Friday. The incidents occurred on Jan. 9, Feb. 21 and March 14; the employees involved in the first two were fired, while the one involved in the most recent one has been disciplined, and an inquiry is continuing...
Some of Britain's most distinguished journalists genuflected to John McCain as he emerged from his first meeting with Gordon Brown on Thursday morning. Observers later reported that the meeting had been a workmanlike affair, 45 minutes long and short on chitchat. Both politicians appeared keen to cut straight to the burning issues of the day: Iraq (a polite disagreement over Britain's plans to scale down its troop deployment), Afghanistan (praise for Britain's role and concern over the challenges), climate change (a bad thing), Tibet ("very disturbing," said McCain afterwards). For Brown, it was an opportunity...