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...A.The bombing of the Golden Mosque [the Ashkariya Shrine in Samarra] in February - that changed everything. That was the most seminal moment of my entire two years here. That probably surpassed the elections in having an effect on the people. That's where we saw the rise in sectarian violence. There were other moments, like the delay in forming the government [after the Dec. 2005 elections]. We didn't have a government until June. That created a real angst in the community, as they watched this process play out. And it allowed the militias to grow without interference...
Come on…can you really imagine any other TV personality take on our own Harvey “C-minus” Mansfield and discuss the “manliness” of President Bush with Colbert-esque wry sarcasm? The repartee between the two was golden. Government concentrators, you know you wish you could have had that opportunity...
...Golden said any measures to change the current policy would be very hard to implement because lawmakers would have to determine “the value of having a child admitted to Harvard...
...would encourage America’s elite universities to try that experiment—to eliminate the preferences of privilege and open their doors to the best applicants, regardless of wealth,” Golden said in his statement.Golden told The Crimson yesterday that his main goal in the hearing was “to reach an audience of legislators and policy makers with the message of my book...
Grassley also questioned Golden on the journalist’s claim that Harvard gives admission preference to children of members of the Committee of University Resources (COUR), which is composed of Harvard’s largest donors—both alumni and non-alumni...