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When she arrived in Cambridge two and a half years ago, junior Liza Ryabkina was taken under the wing of Sarah Vaillancourt ’08-’09, one of the most talented forwards to wear a Harvard uniform.
Delivering the grim budgetary news is the job of Elmendorf's little agency (250 employees). Over the past year, the CBO took on particular importance in determining the shape and even the fate of Obama's signature domestic initiative, health care reform. It is the CBO that will decide the...
In a job that is subject to enormous political pressure, seen and unseen, from both parties, Elmendorf is nobody's pushover. In July, he rocked Capitol Hill when he testified that instead of bringing the government's health care costs down, earlier versions of legislation under consideration in both the...
It was classic Gates: droll, attentive to timing, a little self-deprecating, acutely self-aware. It was also revealing. Gates is a careful, restrained player who wields his power with quiet but ruthless efficiency - as he did on Feb. 1, when he fired the military officer overseeing the Pentagon's...
Gates has always had a keen sense about who is the boss, "how they work, what their needs are and how to successfully contribute to their offices," says an aide. It's what allows him to adapt his positions to changing times. Under Bush he justified the missile-defense program...