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Those episodes, sources say, frequently involved statements Bolton wanted to make about the malign intentions and weapons capabilities of Cuba and North Korea. Two analysts--one at the State Department and the other at the CIA--told the committee they had run afoul of Bolton in 2002 after they warned that he was making assertions in a speech about Cuba's weapons programs that could not be backed up by U.S. intelligence. Bolton, they said, tried to have them removed from their jobs. Witnesses say that after one of the analysts, Christian Westermann, wrote an internal memo warning of Bolton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temper, Temper, Temper ... | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

Some Harvard thesis-writers travel to Tibet to go on archeological digs. They go to Tahiti to study economics. They go to Cuba to read literature. But some members of the class of 2005 never made it further than Widener. These seniors chose to write their theses at Harvard, about Harvard...

Author: By Steven A. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My School, My Thesis | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

...Bahamas, Antigua and Nicaragua. Last week Cuban President Fidel Castro confirmed a news report that his country was Vesco's latest host. But Castro ridiculed speculation that the fugitive American financier was being held against his will. Castro told a news conference in Havana that Vesco arrived in Cuba three years ago seeking medical treatment for an unknown ailment. He is wanted in the U.S. in connection with a $224 million fraud case involving Investors Overseas Services Ltd. and for allegedly making an illegal contribution to Richard Nixon's 1972 presidential reelection campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Notes: Aug. 19, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...cease and desist" order. So what will the female Marines sing now? It probably would not do for them to take a cue from the guys. Says Miller: "The male Marines are singing and thinking about something that is far worse." No lyrics supplied. MIAMI Mayor of "North Cuba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...biggest surprise may be that it took so long. For a full generation, Miami has been populated so heavily by refugees from Fidel Castro's dictatorship that Anglos sometimes call it "North Cuba." But not until last week was its first Cuban-born mayor sworn in. Xavier Suarez, 36, survived a preliminary election on Nov. 5, in which six-term Mayor Maurice Ferre, who was born in Puerto Rico, finished out of the running, and then defeated Raul Masvidal, 43, another Cuban refugee, in a runoff last Tuesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

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