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...years ago, Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, then emir of Dubai, expressed concerns that health care levels in the United Arab Emirates were not up to par. The government of Dubai then approached Harvard for a center for medical education and research...
...town hall discussion this weekend, a group of Massachusetts environmental activists called for the federal government to implement a plan by former Vice President Al Gore ’69 to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. electric generation within 10 years. Speakers at the discussion—which was co-sponsored by Harvard’s Environmental Action Committee—said that Gore’s plan, known as “RePower America,” was highly viable because it focused on the importance of dealing with carbon dioxide emissions on a national level...
...startling 183 times in March 2003 (a May 2005 memo from a CIA lawyer said waterboarding could be used on a detainee up to 12 times daily for as long as 40 seconds per event). Then-CIA director George Tenet, in his 2007 memoir, says that tough interrogation of al-Qaeda members - and documents found on them, he is careful to add - thwarted more than 20 plots "against U.S. infrastructure targets, including communications nodes, nuclear power plants, dams, bridges, and tunnels." A "future airborne attack on America's West Coast" was likely foiled only because the CIA didn't have...
...Critics of such claims argue that what was thwarted were merely al-Qaeda fantasies. "Torture gets people to talk - no question," says a former senior U.S. national security official involved in such matters. "They talk and talk and talk, until you stop hurting them. But in every instance, bar none, you later discover that they've just been lying or exaggerating, or telling you what they think you want to hear." In fact, a 1963 CIA interrogation manual warned that those resisting questioning "are likely to become intractable if made to endure pain" or generate "false, concocted as a means...
...Rattner and wife Maureen White have been very involved in the Democratic Party. White was formerly national finance chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee and the couple have raised money for Al Gore, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama...