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...citizen of North Korea, which lacks diplomatic relations with the U.S., he requires State Department permission to travel beyond a 25-mile radius of the city. During his time as ambassador, Pak has traveled outside New York—to Washington, D.C., for example—to visit Capitol Hill. But the State Department should have realized the importance of his viewpoint and issued him a visa to speak at Harvard. The measure of a speaker’s merit is not the content of the ideas he or she represents. Instead, it is the importance of those ideas...
...failed Bush Administration policies there. But while seeking to "pivot off that to put it squarely back in the lap of the President to propose a way forward in Iraq," in the words of one senior Democratic aide, "there's definitely a sense of wariness up here on Capitol Hill...
...senior Marine general leaves his Pentagon office and heads to Capitol Hill Wednesday with grim news from Iraq. In a series of private briefings, he's expected to tell lawmakers that serious criminal charges - possibly including murder - are going to be leveled against as many as five Marines for the bloodbath at Haditha last year. The heads-up comes two weeks before the Marines are expected to publicly unveil the charges the week of Dec. 18 at the Marine base at Camp Pendleton, California...
...diversity of the attendees—about 50 percent were Harvard students, and the others were from schools around Boston.” The director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Sarah B. Sewall ’83, delivered the keynote address, speaking about her path to Capitol Hill. Sewall served as President Bill Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary for peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance, as well as the senior foreign policy adviser to former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. Sewall said that her fear of a nuclear war—a fear developed in college...
...there was ever a good time for George W. Bush to leave home for a spell, it was right after the mid-term elections, when Capitol Hill was aswarm with triumphant Democrats. He spent two weeks abroad, separated by a brief Thanksgiving interlude at Camp David. Air Force One, the Boeing 747 that has its own medical facility, among other amenities, circled the globe twice, serving Swiss burgers and taco salad, with snicker-doodles for dessert. On the ground in Amman, the White House staff did grapple with local dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First...