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What Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Tom Hayden cast as an academic sojourn to study protester culture in a memorandum to IOP Director Daniel R. Glickman was not what it seemed to be. Rather, the arrest of several of the student researchers for disobeying a police officer and criminal mischief at least casts doubt on whether they were merely distributing surveys to protesters—as Hayden had said was their mission—or protesting (and possibly committing illegal activities) themselves. Tellingly, Hayden has since indicated that the students may have engaged in the protest—something...
...memorandum from April 23, 1999, an employee acknowledges a flaw in one of the company’s electronic ballots...
...when its nose is bloodied. The converse, however, may also be true: That the continued presence of U.S. occupation forces in Iraq fuels an anti-American insurgency there and swells the ranks of Islamist terror networks worldwide. Or, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put in his internal Defense Department memorandum leaked two weeks ago, "Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us? Does the U.S. need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists...
...Young “attributed the plight of the Jew in Jerusalem” to pervasive anti-Semitism. Turning to the original, however, we find that the relevant statement did not come from Young but, as is unmistakably clear to anyone who actually consulted the original, from an enclosed memorandum written by an “A. Benisch” that Young was forwarding to Canning. One wonders if Dershowitz also consulted Peters’s original source for the term “turnspeak”—a coinage of Peters, which she says was inspired...
Lewis observed in a February memorandum addressed to Kirby that “many internal observers of the Harvard scene” employ “hydraulic and mechanical metaphors” to explain how students’ energies should be focused on academics...