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...Kamakura, Japan. Educated at Amherst College and Harvard University, Kase held key posts in Japan's Foreign Ministry before and during World War II. After the war he became a staunch American ally, championing the U.S.-Japan alliance and serving as Japan's first ambassador...
Semyon Tsarapkin, Russia’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations, was visibly touched when four Harvard students presented him with a gift for the newly-constructed University of Moscow on April...
Maccoby and Abrams recalled their meeting with Tsarapkin, the deputy ambassador, as cordial and uneventful...
...Iraqi had also fallen out with Ambassador Bremer. In early spring an Iraqi judge issued a search warrant in an investigation into alleged theft of property and government vehicles by members of Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress (I.N.C.). Bremer wanted to make an example of the I.N.C. and prove that no political party is above the law, but the search was stymied: according to a senior U.S. official, the police couldn't get into the I.N.C. offices the first time they went. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials who were working in a Pentagon-funded intelligence program attached to Chalabi...
Fahrenheit 9/11 is necessarily less personal than Bowling for Columbine and lacks its freewheeling gusto. But it's a fascinating collection of talking points in this election year. In Moore, the American left already had its canniest Bush ambusher, its savviest guerrilla entertainer and its most colorful film-festival ambassador. After Cannes, make that "king...