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...valuable and important resource at Harvard. Under its roof are hosted literature, history, government and economics scholars, as well as year-long fellows, who together make valuable contributions to the field of European studies. Recent guests at the CES have included such figures as Ignacio Arias, the Spanish ambassador to the United Nations; Niall Fergusson, a professor of history at New York University who will join Harvard’s faculty in July; and Lionel Jospin, former prime minister of France. Scholars from all over Europe come to the Center on fellowships that allow them to use Harvard?...
...Governor of New Mexico, which Gore won by fewer than 400 votes, and he has foreign-policy expertise, particularly on North Korea, having served as Bill Clinton's U.N. ambassador. He's a moderate who cut taxes, he's Hispanic, and he's fluent en espanol--not Bush's Tex-Mex version either. But he's known for being too fond of the spotlight and had a troubled term as Energy Secretary under Clinton. Remember...
...late 1940s, well before Saddam Hussein came to power. And Pachachi married the daughter of another former Iraqi Premier, Ali Jawdat. The couple met when he was 14 and married before he began studying for his doctorate at Georgetown University. Pachachi became a diplomat, serving as Iraq's ambassador to the U.N. in the 1960s and then as Foreign Minister. Forced into exile when he refused to join the Baath Party, he became an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, where he slowly developed his relatively liberal ideology...
...wealth in its banks. "They've just stopped responding to us on the issue," complains a U.S. official. Because the money kept by foreign governments has been difficult to recover, Washington is also going after former Iraqi officials who have purloined funds they once controlled. One was Saddam's ambassador to Moscow during the U.S. invasion. A senior U.S. government official tells TIME that the ambassador planned to make off with $4 million kept in embassy bank accounts. He allegedly withdrew the cash, used it to buy certificates of deposit in his wife's name and apparently hoped to fade...
What's clear is that Aristide's exit was arranged in a hurry. According to the Americans who assisted him, he realized his days were numbered on the night of Feb. 28, as rebels moved on the capital. He called U.S. Ambassador James Foley to ask for help getting out. "You haven't thought where you're going until now?" Foley asked with exasperation, according to a senior State Department official. As diplomats scrambled to find him an asylum, Moreno, the second-in-command at the U.S. embassy, set out for Aristide's home...