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Richard Shaw, who served as Yale’s dean of admissions from 1993 to 2005, told the New York Times Magazine that Yale admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Taliban’s former chief envoy, because the school had once had a student of similar caliber apply but that it had “lost him to Harvard” and “didn’t want that to happen again...
Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, took his impassioned one-man crusade to New York City's Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs yesterday, calling HIV "the ultimate ethical issue." In an hour-long speech, Lewis made the case that, despite a few optimistic advances, the developed world has failed to control the spread of the deadly disease throughout the poorest continent...
...coalition, though most analysts believe Olmert will rebuff Bibi and choose Labor as his main coalition partner. In the meantime, Israelis may be clearing space on their bumpers for post-election stickers about Olmert, who is so certain of winning that, in a fit of hubris, he dispatched an envoy to London to pick up pointers on how Prime Minister Tony Blair runs his cabinet...
...none of that is assured. In the eight months since taking over as U.S. envoy in Baghdad, Khalilzad, 54, has earned the respect of both his Iraqi counterparts and his bosses in Washington for the enthusiasm and savvy he brings to the world's toughest job. "Right place, right guy, at the right time," says a U.S. official involved in Iraq policy. And yet the burden of trying to find a political solution to an increasingly brutal, costly and unpopular war is straining even Khalilzad's relentless optimism. He says he believes Iraq is "heading in the right direction...
...Bush says the President admires how Singh, a former economist trained at Great Britain?s Cambridge University, is committed to cutting tariffs and economic liberalization. Aides also say that while Bush has not visited India, he regards it in some ways as his father did when he was U.S. envoy to China in the 1970s - a country with vast potential that is just beginning to come into its own. Says the aide: "He?s very excited about this trip. He knows how important it is." And, he might add given the current circumstances in Washington, how welcome...