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Earlier this month, Ignatieff picked up an important endorsement from Lt. Gen. Roméo A. Dallaire, the force commander of the 1993 United Nations mission in Rwanda who now sits as a Liberal in the unelected Canadian Senate. In the 2004-2005 academic year, Dallaire was a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. At the time, Ignatieff served as the center’s director...
...want people who have expressed an interest in gen ed—and there are a lot of them—to feel in the loop,” said co-chair of the committee Louis Menand, the Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language. “We don’t want to produce a report in secret and then kind of spring it on the faculty...
...membership parallels the three-by-three structure of the current Gen Ed recommendations, with two professors representing each of the three proposed areas. The two humanities professors on this summer’s committee, Menand and Simmons, were both members of the Gang of Five. The two science professors on the committee, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology David R. Liu ‘94 and Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam, and the two social science professors on the committee, Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn and Professor of Sociology Mary C. Waters, are new to general...
...Before this year, the feeding chair - marketed as a "padded cell on wheels" by its Iowa manfacturer - was evidently used sparingly. In comments several months ago, SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Bantz Craddock, who oversees Gitmo, joked that at least hunger strikers got to choose the color of their feeding tube (yellow was a favorite), and the flavor of the lozenges used to soothe thoats irritated by the feeding tubes. "Look, they get choices," Craddock said at the time. "And that's part of the problem." At the peak of a protest last fall, 131 protesters, or more than 25%, were...
...Meanwhile, despite reports that Bargewell's report would be delivered weeks ago, it appears that Lt. Gen. Peter Chairelli, the ground commander in Iraq, who ordered up the investigation, is still reviewing Bargewell's detailed report. "He is going over it with a fine tooth comb," says one defense official. "Given the interest in this case, everyone wants the first report to be comprehensive and answer all the possible questions...