Bill Purcell, the current director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics and former mayor of Nashville, is set to resign and take on greater responsibilities in advising Harvard University on its Allston development plans and on its role as Co-Chair of the Allston Work Team, The Crimson reported last week. Despite a few vocal Allston community members’ suspicions of about nearly [...]
The White House signals tactical retreat. Bloomberg’s reversal of support was said to have been crucial, but what it comes down to is massive backlash and genuine anxiety about November 2010. Picture black-and-white footage of the 9/11 mastermind being led through the streets of Manhattan on endless replay in GOP attack ads.
It is time for the United States government to address the most threatening nuclear proliferation threat of our day: Lehman Brothers. The former investment bank is sitting on enough raw uranium to make an atomic bomb comparable to the Hiroshima weapon. There is no question as to how the US government should respond: prompt and excessive violence. Lehman Brothers struck [...]
As half the world now knows, Bernie Madoff isn’t going to trial. He’s expected to plead guilty on Thursday. From a legal strategy standpoint, the news isn’t very surprising. After all, the case is just about as open and shut as any you can imagine. 1) Investors gave Madoff a lot of money. 2) Madoff had a fiduciary responsibility to [...]
