Topic: Harvard University

Cantor sees Social Security reform proposals soon

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Republican proposals on how to reform federal programs like Social Security and Medicare could be ready in about a month, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday.Speaking at Harvard University, House Majority ...

Republican Cantor defends cuts at raucous Harvard event

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - Republican proposals on how to reform costly federal programs like Social Security and Medicare could be ready in about a month, a top Republican lawmaker said on Thursday.Speaking at Harvard University, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the ...
Harvard says Lawrence Summers returning to teaching, research after 2 years at the White HouseHarvard University says Lawrence Summers is returning to teaching and academic research at the Ivy League school after serving as President Barack Obama's top economic adviser for two ...
" Senator Joseph Biden (D-DL) used those words to describe fellow 2008 Presidential hopeful Barack Obama (D-IL), sparking a controversy he really should have seen coming. Biden, unlike Obama, is no newcomer to the stage of national politics. However, in referring to ...

What's wrong with this picture?

(First reported by zerohedge)Below is the website for Harvard's Foundation Center for Ethics, and it shows upcoming speakers. No problem, right?Oh wait, on 11/12/09 the ETHICS speaker will be Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former New York governor who offered hookers extra money ...
Add beer, and Harvard professor's arrest is a late-night comedy topicLate-night comics found a few things to laugh about in the racially charged arrest of a Harvard professor once beer was added to the equation.President Barack Obama's invitation to the two men ...

Obama to stay out of Harvard scholar race row

President Barack Obama is likely to stay out of a raging racism debate sparked by the arrest of a black Harvard scholar after his earlier comments triggered a firestorm, the White House said Friday.Obama told a press conference on Wednesday that he ...

What is your outlook?

I think I'm more optimistic than I would have been ten or twenty years ago. I'm more optimistic because I see the tremendous potential of the United States. I see the resilience of a global economy that has proven more resilient to ...

How the Government Can Do Good with Less

With a new Presidential Administration in place, there's been much talk lately about how to improve government-run services. How can elected officials save money and create jobs and businesses? This year's 16 finalists for the Innovations in American Government Awards, given each ...

I Would Still Vote Obama

My old and dear friend Peter Robinson (we single-handedly won the Cold War together as Bush I speechwriters at the White House in the early 1980s) takes me to task Friday on Forbes. com for having recognized--finally, after all these weeks--that President ...
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