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...Last Wednesday, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds announced in an e-mail to the Winthrop House community that Law School Professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. and Law School lecturer Stephanie Robinson will assume the posts as Harvard’s first black House masters next fall...
Despite the importance of Darwin’s theory of evolution, there is still much debate about the validity of the theory. A Gallup poll conducted this Wednesday showed that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution...
...Gregg, who does not expect to seek re-election in 2010, first made his concerns clear to Obama earlier this week. They met Wednesday at the White House, just a day after Gregg had conspicuously chosen not to vote at all on the Senate's stimulus plan. The news was kept secret until Thursday. In a briefing to reporters at the White House, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said the news had come as a blow. "My first thought was, It's better we discovered it now than later," he said, according to the Wall Street Journal...
...Senate Democratic leadership was so anxious to declare victory that they ran to announce the news before their House counterparts had fully signed off. "The difference between the Senate and House versions were resolved," Senate majority leader Harry Reid told a throng of reporters on Wednesday afternoon. "The bills were really quite similar. And I'm pleased to announce that we've been able to bridge those differences." (Read "How to Know When the Economy Is Turning...
...write off their interest payments was also reduced, to $2 billion from $11 billion. The bill does include a $70 billion annual Alternative Minimum Tax relief patch to prevent millions of middle-class Americans from getting penalized by a measure that was originally targeted at the rich. Reid on Wednesday boasted that the measure will cut taxes for 95% of workers, though the final agreement trimmed Obama's proposed tax rebates of $500 a year for individuals and $1,000 for families to $400 and $800, respectively...