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...Washington, a beautiful summer day, and I had just come back from swimming. All morning I had been trying to reach I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby for a cover story about both President George W. Bush's claim that Iraq had sought uranium in Africa and former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's controversial Op-Ed. I had been invited to a fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby, who was traveling to Norfolk, Va., with Vice President Dick Cheney...
...businessman Joey Low, who founded Israel at Heart six years ago, said the concert was just a small part of his goal. Israel at Heart arranges trips around the world for well educated, English-speaking Israeli students who win on his successful reality-TV show, “The Ambassador.” Yesterday morning, band co-founder Roie Levi spoke at introductory and intermediate Hebrew classes, held in Sever Hall, about life in Israel. “Israel is a country in the Middle East that is heavily influenced by Western and American culture, despite its geographical location...
...democratic reform and restructuring of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s; in Moscow. Badly wounded fighting with the Red Army in 1943, Yakovlev joined the Communist Party and rose quickly, serving as acting head of propaganda from 1965 until his increasingly liberal views saw him sidelined as Soviet ambassador to Canada in 1972. Gorbachev met Yakovlev there in 1983 and recalled him as a trusted collaborator, later promoting him to the Politburo. Together the pair set about the reform process described by Yakovlev as "trying to dismantle the 1,000-year-old Russian paradigm of unfreedom...
...roots of Arab public opinion toward the U.S.—and the “clash of misperceptions” between America and the Arab world since September 11—at the Kennedy School of Government’s John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum yesterday. Former American Ambassador to Yemen Barbara Bodine moderated the panel, which included veteran pollster John Zogby, University of Maryland Professor for Peace and Development Shibley Telhami, Pakistani journalist Beena Sarwar, and Jordanian diplomat Jafar Hassan. Zogby opened the discussion by presenting recent polls that gauged attitudes toward America within Arab countries. He said...
...owner is a prominent member of the Saudi royal family, whose intimate ties to the U.S. have provoked the wrath of dissident Muslim extremists. Prince Khaled bin Sultan is a nephew of King Fahd's, a son of the current Defense Minister and brother of the kingdom's present ambassador to Washington. Moreover, Khaled was the senior commander of Arab forces during the 1991 Gulf War. It was during this conflict that the kingdom opened its borders to soldiers of the U.S.-led coalition so that their combined armies might strike at the regime of fellow Arab leader Saddam Hussein...