Word: allison
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...There was a sense across the country that the commander-in-chief should be given the leeway to act as he saw fit, said Kennedy School professor Graham T. Allison Jr. ’62. Even in Cambridge, “there was a degree of defence that was unusual,” he said...
...Bush had said after Sept. 11 that in order to defend Americans we have to attack China, you could have almost done it,” Allison said...
...That was not just the perception of outsiders, said Allison, a former assistant secretary of defense with long-time connections to both Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell...
...create a little space for some other things in my life,” said O’Sullivan, who now co-teaches the class, “Central Challenges of American Foreign Policy” with Belfer Center director Graham T. Allison...
...professors present at the dinner remember there was widespread skepticism about the reasons the Bush administration had provided for war—but nearly all thought the war would be a success. “In medicine, there’s medical malpractice,” Graham T. Allison Jr. ’62 said.“In law, you can be disbarred. Well, how about in our business?” The answer, Allison said, is that there is no formal way of holding intellectuals responsible for their ideas, no matter how badly they get them wrong. Politicians...