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...simply let ourselves be defined by others,” Faust said in the interview.Perhaps most telling was an anecdote Faust used to close her speech. She read from a recently unearthed time capsule from former Harvard president James B. Conant ’14 —a letter written 50 years ago and marked for the University President at the outset of the 21st century “and not before.”Faust said in the interview that she approached the letter both as one of Conant’s successors and as a historian...
...million cash on hand, compared to the $36.7 million raised by Schumer and the $20.6 million still left in Democratic coffers. Democrats have even latched on to the 60-seat dream as a fundraising tool. Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, told supporters in a recent fundraising letter "the party is poised to gain the 60 seats necessary to stop Republican filibusters and bring our families and neighbors home from this...
...especially excited for the first show,” he says. “Nov. 1 at 8 o’clock, above all that’s the red letter date for me. I can hardly wait. It’s going to be amazing...
...Hashem was one of the very few top Iraqis to surrender himself voluntarily to the United States. Petraeus, then commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq, personally arranged his capitulation, guaranteeing his safety and medical treatment. "I officially request your surrender to me," Petraeus wrote in a personal letter to Hashem, noting the general's "reputation as a man of honor and integrity is known throughout this country...
...Asked about these assurances, Petraeus's spokesman said the U.S. general's guarantees were no longer operative, despite the fact that Hashem is being held in a U.S. military camp under Petraeus's command. As the spokesman put it, the earlier assurances in the letter "were specifically to ask for Hashem's surrender - there was no intimation of any further guarantees while in Gen. Petraeus' custody...