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...major milestones, though both were largely symbolic. On June 28, the U.S.-led coalition transferred limited sovereignty to a government of Iraqis, ending the reign of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) and placing control of the country—at least officially—in the hands of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. Unfortunately, the transfer of power has not made the rocky road to peace in Iraq any smoother. Earlier this month, a second, far grimmer milestone: the number of U.S. casualties in Iraq crept past the sobering 1,000 mark...
Kirby announced a new initiative in which he said divisional deans will implement “extra-departmental mechanisms for identifying outstanding talent, with particular attention to women and minority faculty who might be recruited to Harvard.” He added that he had asked the deans for interim reports at the end of the semester with lists of tenure candidates and processes by which they would be included in searches...
...Bhabhas returned home after the summer to find themselves happily homeless, and are now renting an apartment near the Quad in the interim before their next move...
...rebels. Principal cities and major roads west and north of the capital are ruled by Sunni insurgents. Al-Sadr's men launch uprisings at will across the wide Shi'ite belt, and even parts of Baghdad are no-go zones for U.S. troops and the frail forces of the interim Iraqi government. All this has helped make the peace much bloodier than the war: last month anti-U.S. attacks climbed to 87 a day, more than double the rate in 2003 and the first half of 2004. The U.S. death toll since sovereignty was returned to Iraq on June...
...feel was a mistake that is now fueling terrorism? All the allies realize that whatever their differences in the run-up to the war, the international community cannot afford to lose Iraq. We can't let that country develop into a failed state. We have to support the Iraqi interim government. Commitments in Afghanistan and Iraq, and possibly Darfur, take NATO far outside its original remit. Is NATO becoming the world's peacekeeper? NATO is about collective security and collective defense. To do that, we need a huge transformation agenda. Afghanistan is logistically very complicated and far away from home...