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...Shakespearean villain. He first offered assistance to Abulfaz Elchibey, Azerbaijan's populist but inexperienced President. He then distanced himself as military and political opposition to Elchibey grew, and finally put himself forward as savior as the chaos worsened. "He was subtle, devious and cunning," recalls a retired Western ambassador who is close to the Aliyev family. He consolidated power, created an updated version of a Soviet ruling party, and was returned to office in elections that were widely condemned for what the U.S. called "numerous, serious irregularities." Had his health held up, he would have been re-elected again this...
Among many Harvard-affiliated donors to Congressional campaigns and national parties in the last year, the FEC report showed Swanee Hunt, a KSG adjunct lecturer in public policy and former ambassador, to be a particularly high roller...
...Rain or shine, John has been a terrific ambassador for our players and coaches [on the basketball team],” he said. “And I sense he’s been that way in all Harvard athletics...
...Saudi Arabia, and why hasn't the U.S. dealt more harshly with the Saudi problem? Treasury officials have been arguing for months to come down harder on Saudis who were giving cash to known bin Laden charity fronts. Last year Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Prince Bandar bin Sultan, was found to have given money directly to the family of a Saudi man in San Diego who befriended and assisted two of the 9/11 hijackers. Yet the Administration acted as if she had merely misplaced her ATM card. Some branches of the Saudi...
...allies in Iraq last weekend suggested that capturing Saddam and putting him on trial would be preferable to killing him. Britain's UN ambassador, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who takes up his post as deputy to U.S. administrator in Baghdad Paul Bremer in September, argued strongly in a BBC interview that Saddam should be taken alive and brought to court. That call was echoed by Ahmed Chalabi, once the Pentagon's most-favored Iraqi exile and now serving on the Bremer-appointed Governing Council. Putting Saddam on trial would allow Iraqis to own the process of their liberation from his regime...