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Your article on Afghan warlord Haji Bashar Noorzai listed possible negative consequences of his arrest [Feb 19]. Assured by a U.S. agent that the trip would be "like a vacation," Noorzai went to America to offer his cooperation against the resurgent Taliban. Now in jail, he can no longer supply intelligence, move his tribe away from the Taliban, persuade his followers to give up poppy farming or sway other warlords toward the political path. But worst of all, his 1 million tribespeople will now be convinced of U.S. perfidy, duplicity and treachery and therefore be converted into implacable enemies...
...creative thesis. He cites two of his creative writing instructors—Kincaid and former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer Robert Cohen—as two figures that were an immense influence on his writing career. Cohen even helped the aspiring writer to publish his novel by finding an agent for him and continues to be a mentor. “A young novelist needs a support network of writers,” Kalam says. Iweala’s senior thesis also had an unexpectedly deep impact on his life. His thesis, a novel entitled “Beasts of No Nation...
Leadership at Harvard By HOWARD E. GARDNER Friday, February 09, 2007 More so than any other university’s president, Harvard’s president must serve as both a trust officer and an agent of constructive change...
...have enough worries about national security, Breach obliges us to think about the deeply weird (and by most of us half-forgotten) case of Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who for a couple of decades enriched himself by passing classified documents to the Soviet Union as well as to its heirs and assigns. When he was arrested in 2001, his case seemed to be just another of those fairly routine lapses in security that afflict all great powers. Some people will spy. Some of them will get caught. Life tends to go on. Who knew how entertainingly, if sometimes scarily...
...Screen next year's season premiere at Gitmo B) Let Kiefer Sutherland's Jack Bauer have a hobby--say, boccie--to show the importance of maintaining a healthy work-life balance C) Make their torture scenes more authentic D) Cast Carmen Electra as a CTU agent ANSWERS...