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Alum. nominated to be ambassador

By Katie Gonzalez | November 19, 2009

Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis '89 nominated by President Barack Obama to be the ambassador to Hungary last month was praised by Democrats and received little criticism from Republicans during her hour-long Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Wednesday. Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis could not be reached for comment by press time. Currently the president of AKT Development, her family's real estate company in Sacramento, Calif., Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis must still be officially approved by the Foreign Relations committee before her confirmation can come to a vote before the full Senate.

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Daily Debriefing

By Emily Fletcher | November 19, 2009

Universities rarely report their researchers' financial conflicts of interest to the government as is required for government-funded research, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report issued on Thursday.

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Soccer makes early tournament exit as Boston College wins in double-overtime

By Manisha Apte | November 19, 2009

The Dartmouth men's soccer team fell to Boston College in the second period of overtime, 2-1, as a strike from 23 yards out in the 103rd minute won the first-round game of the NCAA tournament for the Eagles and ended the Big Green's season in Chestnut Hill, Mass., on Thursday. Eagles freshman Isaac Taylor scored the game-winner three minutes into the second overtime.

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College one of few Ivies with ROTC

By Madeline Sims | November 18, 2009

SAM PURCELL / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended As the nation waits to see whether President Barack Obama will follow through on his campaign promise to eliminate the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, Dartmouth remains one of four Ivy League institutions to permit the Reserve Officers' Training Corps to train students on campus.

Brandon Del Pozo '96 is working to keep the community of Bronx, N.Y., safe as captain of the 50th precinct.
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Alum. captains NYPD fifth precinct

November 18, 2009

Karsten Moran/The Riverdale Press Five days after Brandon Del Pozo '96 arrived in Aman, Jordan, to gather information for the New York Police Department's overseas intelligence program, the two hotels across the street from where he was staying were blown up by suicide bombers.

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Samwick named N.H. prof. of year

November 18, 2009

Andy Mai / The Dartmouth Staff Economics professor Andrew Samwick, director of the Rockefeller Center, will be recognized as the 2009 New Hampshire Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and The Council for Advancement and Support of Education on Thursday in Washington.

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Daily Debriefing

By BRIDGETTE TAYLOR | November 18, 2009

Education Secretary Arne Duncan pledged to re-examine Higher Education Act reporting requirements for colleges and universities in light of criticism about the preparation and filing costs, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on Tuesday.

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Econ. prof. is signatory on health care reform letter to Obama

By JOY CHEN | November 18, 2009

Dartmouth economics professor Jonathan Skinner joined 22 other economists in sending a letter to President Barack Obama on Tuesday lauding several provisions included in the Senate Finance Committee's version of the health care bill that they said could "lower health care costs and help reduce deficits over the long term." Obama referenced the letter in a statement on Wednesday. The economists aimed to "encourage the Senate to keep some of the cost control of the bill in place," Harvard University School of Public Health professor Meredith Rosenthal, one of the signatories on the letter, said in an interview with The Dartmouth. In the letter, the economists recommended a tax on high-cost insurance plans and the creation of an independent Medicare commission.

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House bill could help recent grads.

By Linda Chen | November 17, 2009

In the wake of the House of Representatives' narrow approval of a health care bill that Democratic leaders believe will extend coverage to 36 million previously uninsured Americans, several College and health policy experts told The Dartmouth that, although the bill would extend coverage to recently graduated students, the legislation is unlikely to have an immediate impact on health care coverage for undergraduate students at the College. The Affordable Health Care for America Act which will cost the federal government $1.1 trillion to implement is aimed to help struggling Americans obtain affordable and adequate health care benefits, The New York Times reported on Nov.

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Daily Debriefing

November 17, 2009

A study appearing in the Journal of American College Health found that students who live in coed housing engage in binge drinking more frequently than do those that live in single-sex housing, according to Inside Higher Ed.

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Global temp. rising rapidly, expert says

November 17, 2009

AKIKAZU ONDA/ / The Dartmouth Staff After traveling to remote areas of the world, and even employing yaks to transport large blocks of ice down the Himalayan Mountains in his efforts to conduct research on climate change, Lonnie Thompson has concluded that temperatures on Earth have increased at a higher rate in the last century than they did during any other hundred year period in the last 800,000 years.

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