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...says. “You had a stake in a sophisticated, largely affluent audience, and you had a very interesting group of people to write about underneath the umbrella of Harvard alumni.” True, with featured alumni like Tommy Lee Jones ’69, Al Gore ’69, and (sort of) Bill Gates, “You could cover politics, finance, the arts, architecture, really anything.”Still, there were skeptics who believed that the magazine’s focus was too narrow. Alumnus Stephen P. Younger ’77, who received...
...risk losing its war on terror. "No matter who the President of America will be," Yousuf Raza Gilani told the AP earlier this week, continued strikes will fuel "anti-American sentiments." Such ire could doom Washington's efforts to rid Pakistan's lawless frontier of the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces that regularly launch attacks on U.S. and NATO forces in nearby Afghanistan. Highlighting how Afghanistan has eclipsed Iraq as a strategic issue, Baghdad didn't demand anything more of Obama than, in the words of a government statement, to work together to achieve "security and stability in Iraq...
...Obama are both awful," one Hamas official declared.) But ordinary Palestinians are heartened by Obama's win. "We see Obama's victory as a victory for oppressed people, and since we're living under Israeli occupation, we feel he's with us," said a professor from Jerusalem's al-Qods University...
...Whatever his preference, he'll have to get out of the Madrid airport first. On Monday, the fourth son of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden took advantage of a layover on his Cairo-to-Casablanca flight to seek political asylum in Spain. But on Wednesday, Spain's Interior Ministry confirmed it had rejected his request. A ministry official said the government determined that bin Laden did not "meet the conditions necessary for entering Spain." (The ministry official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with government policy.) He has 24 hours to make an initial appeal and remains...
...asylum outside the Arab world. Earlier this year, he made the same request at the British embassy in Cairo, asking for a settlement visa that would allow him to live in the U.K. with his British wife Jane Felix-Browne - who now goes by the name of Zaina Mohammed Al-Sabah. Although in that case he alleged that his life was endangered both in his native Saudi Arabia and in Egypt, where he currently resides, the British were apparently unmoved by his plight. The embassy rejected the petition on the grounds, according to several British newspapers, that his presence...