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...spent so little time and energy talking about the environment during the campaign. Because we told him not to, the consultants said. Why? I asked. Because it wasn't going to help him win. "He wanted to talk about the environment," said Tad Devine, a partner in the firm of Shrum, Devine & Donilon, "and I said to him, 'Look, you can do that, but you're not going to win a single electoral vote more than you now have. If you want to win Michigan and western Pennsylvania, here are the issues that really matter-this is what you should...
...rather than continuing to fight the system, Olmert joined it. In 1977 he opened a private law firm, using his influence to attract wealthy clients. The law practice made him rich--"I don't hate the good life," Olmert says--but his ties to the business community landed him in the middle of numerous scandals, including a case stemming from the 1988 election campaign in which he was accused of conspiring with other Likud officials to skirt campaign-finance restrictions. Though he was acquitted in 1997, Olmert gained a reputation for cynicism. As Jerusalem mayor, he initiated improvements such...
John Bridgeland, CEO of the Washington-based public-policy firm Civic Enterprises, says it's that type of attitude shift, more than legislation, that is likely to lead to change. Messer's 2005 bill made Indiana one of six states in the past five years to raise its minimum dropout age to 18 from 16. (Twenty-three states still let kids drop out at the younger age without parental consent.) Bridgeland, who co-wrote the Gates Foundation--funded report, supports the age hike but warns that states can't legislate in a vacuum. "These laws have to be coupled with...
...DiAdamo said that improvements to the Harvard Square T stop were a priority to the plaintiffs. Getting the case together was a long and arduous task, according to Doucette. Aside from reviewing 14 million maintenance records and 6,000 pages of MBTA documents, she and her firm hired “experts to do an undercover review of bus services” and “had the film crew document just randomly these people trying to board the green line and we were able to show how poor that service was,” Doucette said. Golden said that...
Harvard inappropriately transferred a $15 million stake in a Canadian window shade company to a private equity firm run by former Harvard endowment managers, a federal appeals court ruled in an opinion released Monday. The court upheld a previous decision declaring that Harvard violated its agreement with Montreal-based Blinds to Go when it sold the stake to a non-Harvard affiliate without first giving the window shade company the chance to buy back the shares on terms “not less favorable.” Harvard had signed an agreement granting Blinds to Go right of first refusal...