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...good, you don’t want to go into the hole.” “It [the shop] is my livelihood,” he said. “It’s my business. I brought up a family doing this.” William W. Bloomstein, an Agassiz resident since 1994, said that there had been an implicit agreement between Harvard and the community that “the Bence Building was going to be protected for a long time.” But Bloomstein added that he did not “see this...
...someone like her.” Chao, a graduate of Harvard Business School, has gone from being a banker to serving as Director of the Peace Corps to becoming President of the nonprofit organization United Way over the course of her career. Her last position was as President George W. Bush’s Secretary of Labor. When asked about acquiring jobs in the midst of an economic downturn, Chao encouraged students to look more closely at public sector positions, predicting that the federal government would likely undergo a massive retirement wave in the next five to 10 years, leading...
...reforms promoting scientific integrity in government earlier this week, he said he wasn’t shocked. “Nobody was surprised he did this,” said McCarthy, who was one of the original signers of a document in 2004 that accused former President George W. Bush of “misrepresenting and suppressing” science for political reasons. “Mr. Obama has surrounded himself with the very best scientific talent any president has had,” he said. “As advisers or heads of agencies, no president has drawn such...
Here in America, the unemployment numbers keep growing. Such icons of U.S. economic power as Citigroup, General Motors and General Electric are in trouble. The big-spending strategy employed by George W. Bush and now Obama has so far failed to turn around the economic decline. Congressional leaders are talking about the need for a second stimulus package. No one should underestimate the danger posed by these policy failures. Gigantic economic dislocations have gigantic noneconomic consequences. The Great Depression led to the rise of Nazi Germany and a militaristic Japan, the spread of communism and World...
...land replete with martyrs and miscreants, Iraqis are divided over which label applies to Muntazer al-Zaidi. The once obscure television journalist who shot to fame for hurling his footwear at then President George W. Bush during a Baghdad press conference late last year was sentenced on Thursday to three years in prison after being found guilty of "assaulting a foreign leader on an official visit." But despite the verdict of Baghdad's Central Criminal Court, many ordinary Iraqis still hail the 30-year-old Shi'ite shoe thrower as a national hero...