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Noted health care economist and former Dean of the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87 will become the latest Harvard professor to serve in the Obama administration, he said in an interview late Thursday. Cutler joins three other members of the economics department in Washington—former University President Lawrence H. Summers, and professors Jeremy C. Stein and Jeffrey B. Liebman. “I think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave. Cutler...
Like Nixon, Blagojevich specialized in collecting enemies only to find himself in need of some friends. He made the point repeatedly on Thursday that none of the charges against him have been proven in a legal sense - and that's true. Though U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has been investigating him for some time, Blagojevich has yet to be indicted, much less convicted. (See pictures of TIME's Watergate covers...
...senator introduced legislation to up disclosure requirements for industry payments to doctors last Thursday, the latest salvo in a national debate over ties between academic medicine and industry that could affect politices at the Medical School and its many affiliates...
...introducing Holbrooke's mission to promote counterterrorism cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Obama on Thursday warned that "there is no answer in Afghanistan that does not confront the al-Qaeda and Taliban bases along the border [in Pakistan]." But Amjad Islam was not killed in some frontier village abutting Afghanistan; his body hung 80 miles (129 km) from Pakistan's capital in the Swat Valley, which until 2007 had been a popular tourist destination dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." Today about 75% of the valley is under the control of a particularly virulent branch of the Pakistani Taliban, which...
...Thursday, the minor glitches continued. At a signing ceremony in the Oval Office, the press was told to leave before the event had ended, an order that the President and his staff quickly noticed and reversed. About an hour later, a senior Administration official gave a briefing to reporters about the new executive orders on torture and Guantanamo Bay. Despite their vocal protests, reporters were told they could not disclose the name of the official...