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...murder of a fellow marine, PFC William T. Santiago (Matthew A. Romero ’02) at the Naval Air Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Santiago’s death is ultimately revealed as part of a cover-up that leads to the heights of the chain of command and forces Kaffee to overcome his fear of the courtroom...
...personal style—the personal style that worried the Harvard Corporation during the presidential search in the first place. And he’s attempting to do so many things himself that he seems not to have spent enough time on any one thing. Admittedly, his second-in-command is new (Provost Steven E. Hyman) and his third-in-command is leaving (FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles), so he could be trying to fly solo for a while longer. Even so, if he himself had concentrated in any one area this year, he would have had something more specific...
...Secretary of State received news of the attack on his way to a helicopter pad outside Jerusalem, where he and Israeli defense officials boarded a Blackhawk to fly to Israel's northern command headquarters. Powell's hosts flew him over the site of the bombing, circling it repeatedly; he could see people running through the streets and ambulances taking the wounded from the scene. Once the Blackhawk touched down, eight miles from the Lebanese border, Powell took a call from Sharon and expressed his deep regrets over the attack. That day, after consulting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Powell...
...fedayeen are most secretive of all about their high command, though the largest organization, Arafat's El Fatah, is said to be ruled by a committee of wealthy civilians in Damascus. Nor does anyone really know very much about Yasser Arafat, though everyone in the Arab world knows who he is. As El Fatah grew and felt the need for a visible spokesman, he became its ambassador extraordinary to the Arab world, its chief fund raiser and its field commander in Jordan. Arafat (his code name is Abu Ammar) sits at a wooden desk in his headquarters in Amman, dealing...
...overthrow was set in motion on April 11 after Ch?vez-funded militiamen opened fire on 300,000 protesters backing a general strike, as they marched toward the presidential palace. Fifteen were killed. Generals in the armed forces began renouncing the President on television. The military high command took Ch?vez into custody and pressured him to resign. He refused, but the generals told the media he had stepped down. Washington chose to believe it. In a press conference the next day, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer acknowledged the transition government headed by Carmona, president of Venezuela?s largest business association...