Monthly Archives: March 2010

From Joan Salge Blake:

March 3, 2010 at 9:55 am

President Obama reportedly has high cholesterol… Michele says it’s from too many burgers.   How about a bean burrito instead? Here’s why: Beauty and the Beans.

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Avoiding home foreclosures

March 2, 2010 at 2:58 pm

The Obama administration is considering proposals to ban all foreclosures on home loans unless they first have been examined for possible modification.  Professor Jack Aber, chairman of the Department of Finance and Economics in the School of Management, says it could be palatable to lenders if the government eases accounting rules having to do with the […]

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Al-Qaida growing in Africa

March 1, 2010 at 5:36 pm

U.S. defense and counerterrorism officials say al-Qaida’s terror network is growing in both strength and numbers in North Africa, threatening to destablize the Sahara region.  International relations Prof. Charles Stith, a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania who direct’s BU’s African Presidential Archives and Research Center, says it’s in America’s interest to help development in Africa. “Africa is […]

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Obama rethinking nuke policy

March 1, 2010 at 4:09 pm

The White House reportedly is rethinking the nation’s nuclear weapons strategy to aim at permanently reducing the U.S. arsenal while rejecting swear-no-first-use proposals.  Attorney Philip O’Neill, author of “Verification in an Age of Insecurity” and who teaches national security law at BU Law, says this nuclear review should be the time and place for a […]

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Microsoft, Google antitrust sparring

March 1, 2010 at 1:34 pm

Google says Microsoft is waging a proxy war by hijacking lawsuits brought by third parties to crank up antitrust sentiment against it so that regulators clamp down on Google’s growth.  Law Professor Keith Hylton says legal weapons have become competitive tools among big technology firms. “I don’t think there are any angels left in the high-tech sector […]

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