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Harvard Law School announced Wednesday that it has received an anonymous donation of $10 million in honor of Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, to fund research and a faculty chair in his name. The donation will finance an endowed professorship and support teaching and research activities, conferences, and fellowships in constitutional law. Steven Oliveira, the law school’s dean for development and alumni relations, declined to comment on what connection the benefactor had with Tribe or the Law School, saying only that the donor “is obviously someone who is an admirer...
...House of Representatives approved significant increases in funding for scientific research Wednesday, moving one step closer to reversing years of stagnant grant money long criticized by Harvard and other research centers. The bill would add $3.5 billion for the National Institutes of Health, which serves as the most significant source of the University’s federal research funding by far. The legislation would also give an additional $3 billion to the National Science Foundation, another key financial backer. The increases are part of a broader $819 billion economic stimulus package passed by the House. The Senate...
...vote Wednesday night was just the first step in the three-part sausage-making process that will create a bill for the President to sign. Next comes a vote on a different bill in the Senate, probably next Tuesday, followed by more than a week of meetings between House and Senate leaders, when a compromise bill will be worked out for another vote in both bodies. But the stakes remain high for the Obama White House and Obama's promise of a new direction in Washington. With just days to go before a likely final vote on the package...
...will see it get better," Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview Thursday on CNBC. "And I also think you will see Republicans voting for it." House Republican leaders also claim to be optimistic that a better compromise can be created. Just hours after the House vote Wednesday night, Representative John Boehner, who leads the GOP caucus, joined Obama at a White House cocktail reception. According to aides, Boehner told the President not to take the House vote as a personal rebuke. It was, he told Obama, instead a rebuke of the bill presented by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi...
...This will be a welfare administration," Sigurðardóttir announced at a press conference on Wednesday during a meeting between the parties of the new coalition government to decide their new platform. Sigurðardóttir also announced that the government's first task is to replace the central bank's directors...