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It is unfortunate, then, that certain local politicians, including Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, are working to thwart Harvard’s attempt to acquire a 91 acre parcel in Allston from the Turnpike Authority. By trying to block the sale, state leaders are pandering to anti-Harvard sentiments instead...
Saddam has also deftly played to his countrymen's ancient and strong feelings of Iraqi nationalism, Arab pride and Islamic fervor. He has charged that the U.S. is waging a colonial war of aggression aimed at dishonoring Islam and weakening Iraq to benefit Israel and acquire oil. Bush war planners...
Jack Meyer, Director of Harvard Management Corporation (HMC)—the endowment management arm of the University—declined to comment on Harvard’s immediate investment strategy but said that HMC’s long term goals do not forecast a change in ownership of these...
Then, in November 2001, as alliance soldiers combed through al-Qaeda safe houses in Afghanistan, documents and computer records revealed that Osama bin Laden's network had been trying to acquire WMDs. Administration officials didn't have to work hard to identify a possible supplier. "Iraq," says a White House...
Regimes like Iraq's, dictatorial and willing to acquire and use terrifying weapons, have long been a preoccupation of the neoconservatives. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, they argue, it is these states that most threaten the U.S. and other democracies. They are today's beasts in the forest...