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2. On the "Black Chamber," America's first codebreaking agency founded in 1919, and its head, Herbert Yardley: "When Herbert Hoover took control of the White House and named Henry L. Stimson secretary of state, the existence of the Black Chamber remained secret even to the incoming administration...After a...
The Institute, which was founded through a joint venture of the two institutions in June 2003, announced in a press release that “this move is unrelated to the recent widespread economic problems.” Eli and Edythe Broad recently donated $400 million to the Institute in...
Former Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye—who has been offered the position of U.S. ambassador to Japan—recalled that Power played an instrumental role in building the school’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, which she founded in 1999.
In December 2008, Judge Keith Rollins’ arrest of Lisa (Miedah) Valentine at the Douglasville Municipal Court for wearing her hijab, a religious covering, sparked national debate over whether or not Muslim women and others should be allowed to wear their symbols of faith in the courtroom. As absurd...
Overwhelmingly Christian, the Chin live in the impoverished mountains near the India-Burma border. An armed wing of the Chin National Front, which was founded in 1988, is one of the few remaining forces waging an insurgency against the ruling junta, but it has been accused by human-rights groups...