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...matter how hard he tried, George Tenet was never going to be a Bush insider. He had worked for a Democrat on Capitol Hill. He was tapped to be CIA director by, of all people, Bill Clinton. He was the lone foreign policy holdover from eight years of Democratic rule in Washington. And so when George W. Bush told Tenet he could stay on for a while in 2001, it was on terms that sounded distinctly probationary. Which meant that while Tenet had plenty of access to the Oval Office under Bush, he was never one of the boys...
...When a Democrat who lost a presidential election to George W. Bush writes a book about the environment, and his name doesn’t end in “Gore,” we all have the right to be suspicious.But fears that “This Moment on Earth,” the new book by Senator John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, will be a carbon copy of “An Inconvenient Truth” and its ilk prove to be unfounded. The book is quite different from that famed multimedia presentation...
...after being named Leader of the Year by the Harvard College Democrats, Kan. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius packed the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum as she delivered a speech on the importance of national unity. A mostly female audience watched as she traded compliments with her political colleague, Jeanne Shaheen, the director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and a former Governor of New Hampshire. Citing the unity the country experienced in the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Sebelius called for a less individualistic society. “Today we live in what many call an ownership society. In actuality...
Frank—a Democrat representing Massachusetts’ 4th congressional district since 1981 and an outspoken supporter of Israel—spoke at “The Future of The Middle East: Israel, Iran, and The War on Terror,” an event organized by Harvard Students for Israel and the Harvard College Democrats...
Over 5,500 people packed into the Agganis Arena at Boston University last Friday in what Senator Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat and 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School, called the “largest fundraiser we’ve had.” The sold-out fundraiser marked Obama’s first public appearance in Boston since he declared his candidacy for president in February, and comes just a month after he held a fundraising event at the Cambridge home of Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law David B. Wilkins ’77. But unlike last month?...