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...opposed to additional roads, [that] now there are two,” said Allston resident Paul Alford. “It doesn’t appear that the community’s input is being listened to at all.” Kathy A. Spiegelman, Harvard’s chief planner for Allston, said that although the new roads were needed to keep traffic off residential streets, the University would continue to solicit resident feedback and amend the plan. “I have found that you all know a lot more about the traffic here than anyone...
...about the Brazilian constitution to a packed conference room in Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall, yesterday afternoon. Mendes was appointed to the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court in 2002, and became the President of the Court in 2008. Billy Magnuson and Alex Crohn, the co-editors-in-chief of the Harvard International Law Journal said that Mendes initially informed them that he would be in the Cambridge area and available to speak this month. “Justice Mendes has a lot of experience with comparative law,” Magnuson said. “We have...
...joke about politicians - like George W. Bush - who claimed they never paid any attention to polls. "Oh, no, we never look at the polls!" he said aboard the Straight Talk Express in the days before the New Hampshire primary in January. Then he shot a glance over to his chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and asked with a grin, "Any new polls this morning, Sergeant Schmidt? Any new numbers?" Like most politicians and political professionals, McCain was obsessed with the polls. He knew how to read them. And he knew - whether they bore good news or bad - that they usually told...
...Reed's comments echo the words of Mark McKinnon, who was McCain's chief media strategist until June, when he dropped off the campaign because he decided he didn't want to participate in attacking Obama. Writing for the website the Daily Beast, McKinnon defended McCain's general election strategy. "I know that Steve Schmidt and his colleagues have run a very good campaign and have taken McCain further than he had any reasonable right to, given the political climate," said McKinnon. "And by the way, don't tell the press, but the election ain't over...
Carrying the united Republican banner is Pete Olson, a Navy veteran, native of Houston and former chief of staff to former Texas Senator Phil Gramm and current Texas Senator John Cornyn. Republican heavyweights including President George W. Bush, Gov. Mitt Romney and popular conservative Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have stood shoulder to shoulder with Olson at campaign appearances and fundraisers as he rails against Lampson as a closet liberal out of step with the district's conservative voters. Meanwhile, the Democrats have poured money into Lampson re-election efforts-the latest numbers from the Federal Election Commission showed him with...