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...That tacit policy has now changed. As part of an intensifying campaign to silence Iran's opposition, authorities in Tehran last week confiscated Ebadi's Nobel medal from a safety deposit box and froze her bank account, according to Ebadi and the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, which protested on behalf of the Nobel Committee in Oslo. A spokesman for the Iranian government denied that the medal was seized and said Ebadi's assets were frozen due to her failure to pay taxes. (See the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...
During Harvard’s Veterans Day celebration on Wed., Nov. 11, President Drew Gilpin Faust embarrassed herself and the university. At this ceremony a new plaque in the memorial chapel was unveiled that honors Harvard’s 12 Medal of Honor recipients. There were representatives from the families of all 12 recipients, including Susan Roosevelt Weld, the great-granddaughter and granddaughter of Medal of Honor recipients President Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) and his son, Gen. Theodore Roosevelt II (Class...
President Faust was invited to speak in front of this large crowd of distinguished guests. However, rather than first thanking the Veterans and their families, she instead began her speech by lamenting the fact that none of Harvard’s Medal of Honor recipients were women. Finally, she emphatically stated that “I look forward to the day when Harvard’s daughters are honored on this plaque as well...
Does she know that 60 percent of all Medals of Honor awarded since WWII have been given posthumously? Does she therefore look forward to seeing Harvard’s daughters killed on the battlefield? Why did President Faust not also bemoan the fact that there are no black or Native American Medal of Honor recipients from Harvard? In fact, President Faust could take an active role to encourage more women to join the military and earn this award if she would allow ROTC back on Harvard’s campus...
...British and American military leaders, including reports that the top British military commander in Iraq from November 2003 to July 2004, Major General Andrew Stewart, complained about a "real difficulty dealing with the American military," which dictated that there was "only one way: the American way." (Read "A Presidential Medal for Tony Blair...