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NORTHEAST
KENNEDY SCHOOL TO PUBLISH REBUTTAL TO ‘ISRAEL LOBBY’
Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government has indicated that it will publish a 37-page rebuttal to the “Israel Lobby” paper co-authored by its academic dean, Kennedy School officials said yesterday.
The response to the “Lobby” paper, written by the Kennedy School’s Stephen Walt and a political science professor at the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer, will be penned by a prominent Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz. Yesterday, Mr. Dershowitz told The New York Sun that the rebuttal “devastates” the Walt-Mearsheimer arguments, and challenges the authors to show that they did not cull the paper’s quotes from hate Web sites.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
WASHINGTON
COURT FAULTS FEC OVER ‘527’ GROUPS
A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Federal Election Commission acted arbitrarily in 2004 when it decided not to regulate so-called 527 political organizations, but he declined to force the commission to impose such regulations.
In a 34-page decision Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote that the commission “failed to consider the relevant factors and its decision does not reflect reasoned decision-making.”
In the 2004 election cycle, so-called 527 committees, such as America Coming Together, Club for Growth, and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, raised more than $200 million while ignoring contribution limits that apply to most federal political committees.
– Staff Reporter of the Sun
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
PANEL FINDS C-SECTIONS NO RISKIER THAN NATURAL CHILDBIRTH
Caesarean sections are not necessarily riskier than vaginal deliveries and may be safer in some ways for the mother and baby in many cases, an influential expert panel concluded yesterday. The panel convened by the National Institutes of Health did not endorse delivering babies by the surgical procedure, but the experts found no clear reason to routinely discourage women from choosing that option, which continues to grow in popularity. The findings contrast with decades of medical advice aimed at trying to reduce the number of Caesareans, which for years were seen as unnecessary, costly, and potentially risky.
– The Washington Post
