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While the U.S. has tried to push Iraqi faces into the forefront of government activity, designating American officials as "advisers" to the coalition-appointed Iraqi ministers, Kerik has assumed complete authority over the police forces. "I run the Interior Ministry," he says. Not bad for a boy from Paterson, N.J., who was abandoned by his mother when he was 4. Kerik is starting largely from scratch. Because the allies destroyed the ministry's old 12-story headquarters, the entire department is working out of a 10-ft.-by-12-ft. office. Only 15 of the civil servants who used...
Though Harvard has taken concrete steps towards recognizing its lack of female faculty, it is not at the forefront of this academic movement. There are notable steps that other institutions have taken that Harvard...
...know what was going to happen, I think we dramatized what the possibilities were,” says Richard J. Vivero ’03, a former Pforzheimer House Committee chair. “Once we got into the Houses, it wasn’t on the forefront of people’s minds...
...percent sure that Rohit [Chopra ’04] was going to win,” says Lurie about his failed presidential run. “I ran to try to bring these issues to the forefront of campus debate. If we are not going to stand up for what we believe in as a council then…the College is not going to take us seriously...
Mendelsohn says that faculty members who had advised the federal government were eager to bring political issues to the forefront of the debate...