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Dillon Professor of International Affairs Lisa L. Martin said the Faculty felt “embarrassment” at the handling of the dean’s departure in light of “leaks and manipulation” in news accounts of the resignation. But in contrast to his handling of the fallout from his remarks last year, Summers disputes the validity of the new accusations, calling the reports of Kirby’s forced resignation “mischaracterizations...
...crime laws. The Tories promised a made-in-Canada foreign policy in 2004 that was unclear beyond calling for higher defense spending, and they were similarly vague in 2006. There are no grand Harper world visions similar to the flights of rhetorical fancy preferred by former Prime Minister Paul Martin, who once notably declared that "showing others the way is at once [Canada's] destiny and our responsibility." The Harper team's approach will be "practical," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay told Time. "We're not going to go with hundreds of priorities--just concentrate on the things we think...
...profile meeting with Bush. Harper's immediate predecessors were already at home on the world stage by the time they became PMs. Jean Chr?tien had been Foreign and Finance Minister when he met Bill Clinton at a 1993 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting two weeks after taking office, and Martin's credentials as Finance Minister helped finesse his first trip as PM, to a 2004 meeting of leaders in Monterrey, Mexico. "Foreign policy was not among Harper's top five priorities," concedes Derek Burney, who heads the transition team...
...anti-foreign-policy foreign policy. No ambitious initiatives, no attempts to set the world on fire. Official Ottawa, at least, seems to be relieved by the downshift. Some of Harper's early Ottawa-oriented diplomacy, such as scrapping the complex foreign policy and national-security superstructure established in the Martin Cabinet and reversing the controversial split in 2004 of the Foreign Affairs and International Trade departments, have already won bureaucrats' hearts. The atmosphere, says a top Foreign Affairs official, "is definitely more practical...
...safe, which you hate to see in women’s hockey.”PRINCETON 6, HARVARD 1No. 6 Princeton proved to be too much for Harvard, outperforming the Crimson at every facet of the game in a 6-1 rout at Baker Rink. Freshman netminder Brittany Martin suffered her first collegiate defeat “We weren’t ready for it,” Raimondi said. “It was not a fun loss for anyone, and it stung. But if you don’t come to play, that can happen...