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Dawson—who has been the chair of the University of Chicago political science department since 1998 and is the director of the university’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture—has accepted a joint appointment in Harvard’s Afro-American studies and government departments...
...divides her time between New York City and Shanghai, but Kan, 52, is a year-round celebrity in her native China. Her self-named cosmetics line designed for Asian women, a joint venture with Coty, is one of the top-selling brands in Asia, and she has written three books on beauty and etiquette. More recently she introduced a children's doll with Asian features and a hairdo that closely resemble her own. The doll is so successful in China it has spawned its own comic strip...
...Marine General Peter Pace, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insists that the U.S. "will continue to work with each of the tribal leaders to get to the point where the things that we are doing in Afghanistan alongside them are good for both the U.S. and Afghanistan." But he concedes that all of Afghanistan is a battlefield. And, he said, "the battlefield will continue to be fluid...
...based solely on his out-of-the-box thinking; it's also helped by the fact that he has proved, most recently during a peace workshop he convened in Jerusalem last December attended by some 900 Israeli peace activists, political leaders and intellectuals who signed a joint declaration, that he can get the other side to listen...
...initiatives to break the logjam will be reinforced by this week's conference in Egypt between senior Israeli, Palestinian and Egyptian rabbis, imams and priests, which resulted in a joint declaration that condemned "killing innocents in the name of God" and committed the signatories "to throw their moral weight behind attempts to stop the violence." Participants included Israeli and Palestinian cabinet members, and the head of Islam's most prestigious university, Cairo's Al Azhar...