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Mary Anne Franks is a resident tutor in Eliot House and a member of the Harvard Law School Class of 2007. She previously received her D.Phil from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.
The contrast seems stark. Tommy Franks, the Army general who as chief of Central Command scuttled Anthony Zinni's more robust war plan and agreed with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that invasion-lite was the way to go, got the Presidential Medal of Freedom. So did former CIA chief George...
Franks' successor, John Abizaid, is by all accounts a fine Army officer, but one who spent years stressing the need for a "light footprint" inside Iraq that dragged out the death and dying on both sides. He'll retire soon to praise and pension. And General George Casey, Abizaid's...
Joseph Nathan Straus, 52, of Princeton, N.J., and a grandson of Nathan Straus Jr., is hardly surprised by the YIVO file's unveiling. Within his family circle, the efforts of his grandparents to help the Franks are widely known, he says. "Despite the efforts of individuals to do the right...
For a person most Americans have never heard of, Doug Feith has been called terrible names by very important people. In Plan of Attack, Bob Woodward quotes General Tommy Franks - appalled at the quality of intelligence about Iraq - railing that Feith, then the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, was "the...