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...President Barack Obama blasted Wall Street for shameful and irresponsible behavior after reports that Wall Street paid $18.4 billion in bonuses in 2008. These numbers were from New York State where payouts were 44% below last year. The common man, the government, and the press felt that no bonuses were the only right thing...
...Summers, who heads the National Economic Council. “I think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave. Cutler was one of the chief architects of President Barack Obama’s health care plan—a hot-button issue during the presidential campaign—and said he will continue to work on health care policy in D.C. Cutler first came to Harvard in 1991 as an assistant professor, received tenure in 1997, and recently finished...
...retirement the position will be renamed the Laurence H. Tribe Professorship of Constitutional Law. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor, is the second most cited constitutional scholar in the country and garnered increased media attention during the past two years as a result of his connections to President Barack Obama. During his time at the Law School, Obama served as Tribe’s research assistant and later called the professor one of his mentors at the school. Dean of the Law School Elena Kagan and Obama’s Solicitor General-designate also studied under Tribe...
...consider a similar version of that legislation next week. Harvard chief lobbyist Kevin Casey said it is likely that the bill will pass “in the near future.” Democrats are hoping to ready a final version of the bill for President Barack Obama’s approval by the second week of February. Massachusetts, with its myriad research hospitals and universities, is the nation’s largest recipient of NIH funding per capita and is second only to California in overall funding. In 2007, Massachusetts received $2.2 billion in NIH funding—roughly...
...TIME's Person of the Year: Barack Obama...