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...don’t tell.”“The burden is on the University to come up with different strategies and see what courses of action it can pursue to protect its students,” Paik said.Harvard’s chief lobbyist said yesterday that the University had not decided whether to take a position on Meehan’s bill.“Typically Harvard has had an institutional voice on issues that relate to higher education or to Harvard specifically,” Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal...
...main event will be between DeLay and Lampson, and the line in the sand is clear. Lampson is sure to keep calling DeLay a "bully" and try to hang Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff around DeLay's neck. As for DeLay, he no doubt will be smiling that ubiquitous smile and pointing out to those suburban, generally conservative Houston District 22 voters that while Lampson calls himself a conservative Democrat, he has taken money from well-known liberal Hollywood contributors like Norman Lear, Barbra Streisand and Rob Reiner. That battle may well be the real "Remember the Alamo" moment...
...government provides "an enormous amount of support - but no country can afford free child care." Those urging reform aren't calling for that just yet, but M.P. Kelly is among those expecting big things in May's Budget: "The government knows it can do more in child care." When lobbyist Romeril began working in child care five years ago, she found many colleagues gloomy about the prospects for change. But as the issue gains momentum, she says, there's a sense "that policy makers are recognizing that child care is here to stay." Perhaps they're seeing that when they...
...Abramoff's Kodak Moment" [Feb. 20] described a gathering of about two dozen people that included President Bush, Raul Garza--who was a client of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff--and Abramoff himself. The photo of the meeting that TIME published shows Bush and Garza shaking hands, with Abramoff in the background between a wall and some onlookers. You even had to draw a circle around his face to point him out. That photo goes nowhere near making the case that Bush and Abramoff were close; it makes the case that TIME was desperate for any picture that included...
...House, Homeland Security, the National Economic Council and a number of outside lobbying groups (who know a really big feed when they see one), all bombarding the Hill with phone calls and data, and all to very little apparent effect. "It's all hands on deck," said an outside lobbyist on the case. "The White House has done a good job in the press of making this look stabilized, but the members just aren't there...