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Over the past several years, student groups have been pushing for stricter policies to regulate industry ties at both the Medical School and at its affiliated hospitals. Tensions between the administration and a small group of vocal first-years mounted last year, intensifying when students took their campaign to the New York Times and publicly challenged the Medical School with mixed success...
...Whether Martino is leaving willingly or not, his departure means that one very vocal critic of the Administration has lost his bully pulpit. That may come as a relief to some within the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) who have become increasingly disturbed by the politicization of some church leaders this year, most notably in protests against President Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame and the role of some church officials at Senator Ted Kennedy's funeral service and burial. (Read "After Kennedy's Death: Silence from the Pope...
...Party leader Yukio Hatoyama, set to become Japan's next prime minister, has been vocal about distancing the country from Washington and forging closer ties with its Asian neighbors...
...billion. It was an idea that he and then New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, among others, had pioneered in 1994. When Kerry dusted it off this summer, unions balked, since many of their plans are worth as much as $25,000 a year. He convened some of the more vocal opponents last month. "I'm doing what Teddy Kennedy would do ... I'm finding a compromise to get a bill passed," he told the group. Kerry didn't win them over, but they did pledge not to oppose the proposal. (See the most notorious presidential pardons of all time...
Still, considering the buildup to this weekend's town-hall meetings (the President has one more, on Saturday afternoon in Grand Junction, Colo.), the proceedings within were civil. Outside the hangar, angry vocal exchanges erupted, but no one got physical. (Read a story about Montanans gearing up for Obama's visit...