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...from passing cars, and their pet dogs gunned down on the lawn. Her father ultimately resigned his academic job in frustration over narrow-minded colleagues. "It felt as though we were being punished for crimes we hadn't realized we had committed," Chai writes in Hapa Girl, her searing memoir of growing up half-Chinese in the American heartland. "There were many people who wanted my father to suffer. They were going to show this 'Chinaman' his place...
...This is almost painfully clear in Tenet's new book, At the Center of the Storm, his memoir about his seven years as CIA boss currently excerpted on Time.com and in the upcoming issue of TIME magazine. The book - and Tenet's publicity tour interviews, including one with Time.com - has once again reignited all the old fights between Bush Administration neoconservatives and Republican internationalists - starting with 9/11 and continuing right through to the war in Iraq...
...Bremer writes in his memoir that the intelligence community estimated that this order would affect only about 1 percent of the Iraqi population. That could be taken to imply that [CIA] supported the move and thought it was a good idea, but that was definitely not the case. In fact, we knew nothing about it until de-Ba'athification was a fiat accompli. Clearly, this was a critical policy decision, yet there was no NSC Principals meeting to debate the move. As for the 1 percent number Bremer cites, he didn't ask for that estimate until the date after...
...says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming them with courtly Dari and Afghan social graces burnished by his earlier visits to the country (his 2002 trek across Afghanistan formed the basis of his best-selling travel memoir The Places In Between). His first project was to rid the area of 900 cubic meters of trash-a triumph that earned him much gratitude. "We didn't trust him at first," says Aziz. "So many foreigners come in with great promises, and nothing ever happens...
...Syracuse, Dau worked several low-paying jobs for companies such as McDonald’s and UPS. He was profiled in a 2006 documentary film about the lost boys of Sudan, “God Grew Tired of Us.” Earlier this year, Dau published a memoir of the same name. Dau is now pursuing a degree at Syracuse University as a part-time student, and he directs a nonprofit devoted to Sudanese refugee issues and rebuilding southern Sudan. Last night’s talk was followed by a reception at Uno Chicago Grill in Harvard Square...