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Meet Jim Oberwetter, U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, which is America??s largest oil supplier and a key strategic partner in the war on terror. Mr. Oberwetter had never set foot in the desert kingdom before he became Ambassador two years ago. His resume boasts a stint as chairman of the American Petroleum Institute, which lobbies on behalf of over 400 oil and gas interests in Washington D.C., and work lobbying for the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, but no knowledge of Arabic. More importantly perhaps, his former employer, Hunt Consolidated Oil, gave $250,000 to Bush?...
...representative was William S. Farish, millionaire horse breeder and Bush family friend, perhaps as famous for gifting Bush Senior the White House dog, Millie, as for anything else. Reputedly shy by nature, Farish decided not to hold press conferences for the year preceding the Iraq War and further condemned America??s already abysmal reputation in the British press by refusing to answer journalists’ phone calls. In fact the British public noticed little difference when he left thirteen months ahead of schedule, leaving America??s embassy to its closest ally leaderless for a year...
...That law clearly hasn’t worried the present administration. Four-fifths of America??s current ambassadors to European Union nations gave donations to Republican campaigns in the last election cycle. Latvia has the honor of hosting a former Bush ‘super ranger’—someone who raised more than $300,000 for the 2004 campaign. In all, Bush’s first 35 political appointees to the diplomatic corps gave an average of $141,110 to GOP campaigns between...
...time. Students planned a rally and a concert in Sanders Theatre to raise over $10,000 that the University would then match for additional scholarships, historian Morton Keller said yesterday. Keller and his wife Phyllis are the authors of “Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America??s University.” In 1938, the Harvard Corporation established 20 scholarships of $500 for refugees who had fled Nazi Europe, according to the Kellers’ book. Still, Morton Keller said, Harvard could have done more to help Jewish refugees, who composed the majority of Europeans eventually...
...establishment Iranian politicians such as former President and current Expediency Council Chairman Rafsanjani. The U.S. should push for a UN-approved deal involving a degree of diplomatic and commercial rapprochement plus nonaggression guarantees in exchange for Iranian compliance. The firebrand president will likely oppose this offer, yet it is America??s best chance of appealing to and strengthening the hands of the moderates chafing under his leadership. The political clout of these moderates is undermined by a hard-line U.S. position.Reassured by the reasonable, non-aggressive intentions of the United States and buttressed by a citizenry willing...