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...will brood around for the first hour or so while coming to terms with the fact that they have to party when they should be out looking for the diplomat's daughter. Or something like that. The BSA/BMF combo will pick up the slack...
...attacking a symptom rather than the disease. Five Middle East specialists contacted to speak about the flap made the same central point: Hosni's comments are anything but unusual in the political settings in which he made them. (None of the analysts - academics, think tank researchers and one diplomat - would go on the record with their views, pointing to the explosive nature of the controversy.) "This is certainly not excusing them, but the kinds of [anti-Jewish], anti-Israel comments attributed to Hosni are the lingua franca of Arab political and cultural elites," says one Middle East expert. "Virtually none...
...politics who served as a special assistant to president George W. Bush and helped implement the Bush administration’s surge strategy in the Iraq war, has been appointed as a professor of practice. The five-year renewable professorship generally is given to those with extensive political or diplomatic experience outside of academics. “Meghan brings a combination of a really rare intelligence with practical, on the ground experience,” said Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75. “What we are trying to do at the Kennedy School...
...Vatican diplomat said the original copies of all correspondence to the Pope - and a photocopy of the responses - are duly sent to the Holy See archives. Such missives are divided among those of a personal nature from ordinary faithful that are kept in the Pope's personal archives and those of a public or political nature that go into the Vatican's "general" archive. After a certain period of time following a Pope's death, scholars may eventually be given access to the correspondence. The Pope would never reveal the contents of the private correspondence he receives, the Ambassador told...
...These decisions [about how to react to deaths of public figures] ultimately depend on the Holy Father," says the Vatican diplomat. "There's no fixed rule." (See pictures from a Kennedy family photo album...