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When asked if he was referring to Palm, Cook said he didn't "want to talk about any specific company." However, Jon Rubinstein, a former Apple star who oversaw the iPod division, went to Palm last summer to spearhead The Pre project, and it's well known in the Valley that the defection rankled Apple...
This sort of thing has been happening quietly all over the country this winter. For the first time in decades, a President will enter office at the spearhead of a social movement he created. The exact size can be measured in various ways. He controls a 13 million-name e-mail list, which is nearly the size of the NRA and the AFL-CIO combined. Three million people have given him money; 2 million have created profiles on Obama's social-networking site. More than 1.2 million volunteered for the campaign, which has trained about 20,000 in the business...
...primaries, says Glaeser, "Obama was clearly focused on issues of the city, like the Harlem Children's Zone," a nonprofit antipoverty effort that Obama hopes to replicate in 20 cities across the country. When Obama got involved with civil liberties issues as a state legislator, it was to spearhead a law requiring the videotaping of all confessions and interrogations in capital cases, which disproportionately involve urban defendants in Illinois...
...study retirement matters that the 401(k) has so far proved a less-than-adequate replacement for disappearing corporate pensions. "It may be a good tax-free-savings system for wealthy individuals," sums up George Miller, the California Democrat who chairs the Education and Labor Committee and plans to spearhead a re-examination of the 401(k). "It may not be the best retirement-savings system for working families...
History Professor Ann M. Blair ’84 and History of Art and Architecture Professor Ewa Lajer-Burcharth will spearhead the effort in the humanities. Brigitte C. Madrian, a professor of public policy and corporate management at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Chair of the Sociology Department Robert J. Sampson will assume leadership in the social sciences. Rosalind A. Segal, a professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Astronomy Dimitar D. Sasselov will head the science initiatives...