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While far from endearing, perhaps the two men flatter themselves that they shall be able to do some good in this latest attempt—sponsored by the private yet official-sounding Council on Foreign Relations—to mend recent diplomatic failures through an exhaustive report on the situation. But no such report will be exhaustive if it fails to take note of the role these fellows have played...
...first place the United States must look to mend some of these diplomatic wounds is in the post-war rebuilding of Iraq. However, it does not seem as though that is part of the Bush administration’s agenda. The two government contracts in Iraq already awarded were only bid on by American firms. The biggest contract—for $600 million—has not yet been given out, however. As the editor-in-chief of the Middle East Economic Digest told CNN, “There’s an almighty political scrap going...
Stone’s predecessor, Grogan—who was brought in to mend Harvard’s ties to Boston and is currently president of the Boston Foundation—says he felt Cambridge activists and city councillors were “utterly unsympathetic” to Harvard’s needs during his tenure as vice president...
...Grogan came to us with different marching orders. His primary objective was to mend his wounds in Boston,” Sullivan says. “He did the job he was hired...
...MEND director and McKay Professor for the Practice of Biomedical Engineering David A. Edwards said he has met with the provost to discuss the project’s needs but that it still relies on traditional grant support, which tends to fund academic research and not MEND’s more on-the-ground efforts...