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...Garner has doled out several high-level appointments to members of the Old Guard. The moves have infuriated coworkers and heightened fears among some that the defeated regime is not truly finished. Expediency is a factor. With the school year coming to a close, the Americans opted to maintain continuity at universities so students could finish their degrees and enter the job market on schedule. As a result, says Professor al-Bayati, everywhere he looks he sees colleagues who were integral figures in the old order. University president Mohammed al-Rawi, who was also Saddam's personal physician, kept...
Callie Crossley, the Nieman Foundation’s Program Manager, placed the blame for this perception squarely on the shoulders of Raines and his high-level associates at the Times...
...Saad, a burly Kashmiri in his mid-30s with a closely cropped beard, is one of them. Eyes ablaze, Saad?who prefers not to disclose his full name for security reasons?continues to talk of unending war in Kashmir. These days, however, he's not so sure of high-level support within Pakistan. For an interview at his home in Islamabad, he insists we drive a mazelike route because, he claims, Pakistani intelligence agents, who were once his friends and mentors, are now keeping him under surveillance. Saad says he commands 70 fighters?a fraction...
...ears and sympathies of high-level administrators are key to the arts’ success at Harvard, the restructuring of the College Dean’s office can only make matters worse. Gross says he will probably be overwhelmed by holding direct responsibility over 20-plus underlings, as might happen under the current plan to merge the offices of undergraduate education and the College. While he says he will “have to maintain a direct line” by meeting with the heads of each organization, two College administrators say a layer of bureaucracy will likely sit between...
...preoccupations of the Chinese Communist Party. Top party official Zhou Enlai reported that 830,000 “enemies of the people” were destroyed in three years. Mao himself bragged of killing tens of thousands of scholars and executing over 800,000 landlords during the 1950s. Another high-level administrative report stated that nine million peasants were executed during one two-year period and 15 million Chinese were intentionally exterminated in another three-year period. A conservative estimate places all the murders under Mao at 35 million, although various experts, refugees and communist officials place the number closer...