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...director and screenwriter Paul Greengrass tells the tale, already becoming an integral part of the American psyche, of a few short hours on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Sitting in my seat before the movie started, I was already tense. As a resident of lower Manhattan, I, like other New Yorkers, felt deeply touched by that day. Indeed, I had found it hard to even watch the trailer online. At the heart of “United 93” is the story of the passengers and the hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93, which was aimed...
...practical consequences. The Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, like any other ambassador, is charged with managing America’s trade relationships, maintaining strong ties with the government, and coordinating responses to terrorist threats. And contrary to popular myth, these are not duties that can, or should, be undertaken by lower level, if more experienced, bureaucrats in the embassy. When prime ministers, journalists and police chiefs communicate with an American embassy they want to speak to the person in charge because they know that only one person is directly accountable to the President. And in Saudi Arabia right now that person...
...said one anonymous non-tenured faculty member interviewed for the 1954 report. “I’ve seen enough with what happens to people when they’re up on the five-year up-or-out to be quite disenchanted with the lower hierarchy around here....I feel uprooted....I feel transient...I have no special reason to stay [at Harvard...
...Army investigation has found that while neither Jordan or Pappas personally participated in the abuse of prisoners, both bore some responsibility by virtue of their command status. Other investigations have said that Jordan was inexperienced in interrogation and intelligence collection, often deferring decisions to lower-ranking soldiers under his command to whom he provided inadequate supervision. The Army has offered no explanation as to why Pappas faces less serious charges than Jordan, or why the charges against Jordan are only being brought now, when those against Pappas were settled last year...
...Women (ABHW) last night elected the executive board that will lead the group into its 31st year of existence. Natasha S. Alford ’08 was elected president and Amara A. Omeokwe ’08 was elected vice president in uncontested elections held in the Adams House Lower Common Room. “ABHW has been my heart since I got to this campus,” Alford said. She said that she wants ABHW to continue “to be a strong representative of the black women’s community at Harvard, but also...