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...negotiator and the U.S. military officials was provided to TIME by the insurgent negotiator. He says two such meetings have taken place. While U.S. officials would not confirm the details of any specific meetings, sources in Washington told TIME that for the first time the U.S. is in direct contact with members of the Sunni insurgency, including former members of Saddam's Baathist regime. Pentagon officials say the secret contacts with insurgent leaders are being conducted mainly by U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers. A Western observer close to the discussions says that "there is no authorized dialogue with the insurgents...
Insurgent sources say both sides have been feeling each other out for months. Some of the earliest advances were made last year through Jordanian intelligence officers, but insurgents balked at the idea of meeting in Jordan. U.S. diplomats also initiated contact with conservative Sunnis known to have influence with the insurgents, such as Harith al-Dhari, the head of the Association of Muslim Scholars. Insurgent sources say that last summer a loose amalgam of nationalist groups--Mohammed's Army, al-Nasser al-Saladin, the 1920 Revolution Brigades and perhaps even the Islamic Army of Iraq--met to discuss forging...
...female deans. He appointed two in his first two years. A majority of University vice presidents he has appointed have been women. He has pushed to reform of the undergraduate curriculum, including an elimination of the Core and replacing it with a curriculum with greater emphasis on student-faculty contact and study abroad initiatives. He has played an important role in the hiring of some of Harvard’s newest and brightest faculty, including Tisch Professor of History Niall Ferguson, Professor of Systems Biology Eric Lander, Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, and Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven...
...police escorted them away swiftly and booked Jenkins for “loud and boisterous disorderly contact.” He and the other protestors were supposed to spend the night in jail and then appear before a judge the following morning...
Some of the celebrities even keep in contact with the Pudding after the event. Jamie Lee Curtis, who won the Woman of the Year in 2000, for instance, took a Polaroid picture of herself wearing Hasty Pudding underwear and sent the photograph back to the HPT; the picture now sits in the business office...