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...seize the initiative, the White House announced a series of new diplomatic actions of its own, inviting Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, head of Iraq's leading Shi'ite party, and Tariq al-Hashemi, the Sunni Vice President, to Washington over the next few weeks as part of an effort to deepen connections to a greater variety of Iraqi political figures. And aides say Bush may call for what were already being dubbed "reciprocal obligations" with the Iraqi government: trading troop deployments for progress on sectarian violence, just as Baker and Hamilton are expected to propose. But there will...
...Even the enrichment announcement itself bears some scrutiny. Ahmadinejad was actually upstaged by his most detested domestic political rival, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani - the former president who, despite the backing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini, lost his bid for a third term against Ahmadinejad. Rafsanjani broke news of the enrichment to an Iranian radio station several hours before Ahmadinejad, spoiling the surprise in an effort to deny Ahmadinejad the credit for the politically popular achievement...
Last month, when The New York Times Magazine reported that Yale had admitted former Taliban envoy Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, former Yale admissions dean Richard Shaw told the Times that a foreigner of similar caliber had applied for “special-student status” and that Yale had “lost him to Harvard...
Richard Shaw, who served as Yale’s dean of admissions from 1993 to 2005, told the New York Times Magazine that Yale admitted Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the Taliban’s former chief envoy, because the school had once had a student of similar caliber apply but that it had “lost him to Harvard” and “didn’t want that to happen again...
...Hashemi gained some notoriety for a clip of one of his appearances in Michael Moore’s 2004 documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11.” In the clip, he was confronted at a conference in Washington, D.C., by protesters, including one woman who shouted, “You have imprisoned the women—it’s a horror, let me tell...