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Roemer, governor from 1988 to 1992, has returned to Harvard for a brief rest from national politics as an Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow...
...take it to its nth possibilities. The President and Casey and I discussed the situation on the ground in Poland constantly: covert operations; who was doing what, where, why and how; and the chances of success." According to Clark, he and Casey directed that the President's daily brief -- the PDB, an intelligence summary prepared by the CIA -- include a special supplement on secret operations and analysis in Poland...
...each day. Unfortunately, because of either their tight schedules or their unawareness of the near-comic nature of such columns as "Ask Beth," college students can seldom keep up with all the faux-human-tragedy splashed across newsstands. 15 MINUTES henceforth offers, as a service to its readers, this brief summary and handy ratings of selected letters and their responses...
After graduation, Pawloski did brief stints in professional hockey (the Harvard Whalers) and the business world, before joining Harvard last year as a volunteer assistant coach...
...ADMINISTRATION advertises its moral bankruptcy in its current brief before the Supreme Court, which will decide the fate of many of the refugees this week. Bush's Solicitor General, Kenneth Starr, argues in the brief that challenges to repatriation from human rights advocates and religious organizations represent an "unprecedented assault" on executive power. Executive privilege is the last refuge of scoundrels--just ask Richard Nixon or Ollie North. The appeal to legality before morality, however, fits nicely with the refugee/migrant distinction. It clears the conscience--and Guantanamo Bay, where the refugees are waiting--without doing any good for the Haitians...