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Harvard’s own culture is partly to blame. Compared to MIT, which is often cast as enthusiastically embracing an entrepreneurial view of science, Harvard has a reputation of being “above” turning research into profit. (Harvard generally gets only a portion of the profit from technologies it licenses to companies.) At the workshop, Hyman said he and Summers (who was not present) wanted to fight the perception that “Harvard is grudging about all of this” compared to other universities and has moved slowly to make it possible...
Palestinian financial reformers have an advantage that political progressives lack: a population that is sick of corruption and can't blame it on outsiders. Palestinians often assign their lack of progress toward an independent state to Israeli and American obstinacy, but malfeasance is an all-Palestinian issue, one on which there is a broad popular demand for change. That has given Fayyad, a former official of the International Monetary Fund with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas, the confidence to order the scrubbing of the Authority's books. Says Karim Nashashibi, the IMF's representative...
...votes needed to break a filibuster. Members of Congress from both parties say Bush will still have to cut deals with Democrats and ditch pet projects in order to get things done. "The President asked for the Senate, and he's got it," says Reid. "He can no longer blame us if something doesn't go right." House Republican leaders say they plan to send a raft of Bush's favorite bills, which they passed early in his term, back to the G.O.P.-controlled Senate. While popular with conservatives, some of the items on that list--a ban on partial...
...Gore is best positioned for a postelection bounce, Gephardt and Daschle appear the most bloodied. The day after the election, when reality set in, Daschle conceded he had to carry the blame for Democratic losses in the Senate. "I can't shrug it," he said. "I can't shirk it." Sources say he will probably abandon a presidential run and focus on being Senate minority leader. As House minority leader, Gephardt spent most of the past decade trying to make up the 52-seat loss to Republicans suffered in 1994. "I've been consumed," he told TIME...
...Rose’s second fumble of the game, but Harvard coach Tim Murphy refused to place the blame solely on Rose...