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...meeting that Zarqawi planned to hold in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad. His safe house was targeted in an air attack, and, says the same source, the Jordanian-born leader of the group al-Qaeda in Iraq was killed in the bombing. A senior Jordanian official confirmed that "there was a Jordanian security role in this." The official said he believed the breakthrough was a result of "cumulative intelligence," including from the recent arrest last month of a senior Al-Qaeda operative in Iraq. U.S. officials have said fingerprint and photographic evidence confirm Zarqawi's identity. Jihadi websites...
...people at the school today in a speech that comes just a week after he was nominated by President Bush to serve as the next Treasury secretary, the post that Lawrence H. Summers held before becoming Harvard’s president. The Senate is widely expected to confirm Paulson, and he could succeed John W. Snow at the position as early as the beginning of July. But when students wrote down Paulson’s name last year on ballots handed out to the graduating class, they were choosing him as a representative of the private sector?...
...several attendees. The fellows will reach out to freshmen over the summer and on move-in day, and they will assume some of the responsibilities of the former Prefect Program. In the meantime, Viswanathan has her internship to keep her busy.“I am happy to confirm that Kaavya will be working with the 85 Broads team in Greenwich, CT. on a number of exciting projects,” Janet Hanson, the founder of 85 Broads, writes in an e-mail, adding that Viswanathan will be working on “a variety of projects that have...
When conservatives on the Board tried to block the appointment of economist John Kenneth Galbraith in 1948, for example, University President James Bryant Conant ’14 threatened to resign if the Overseers did not confirm the appointment. As Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70 recounts in his book, “Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience,” the Overseers promptly backed...
...also confirm that our goals and objectives are to establish law and order in our country and free our people from oppression...