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Although she is promoting a product, she says her work has an important mission...
...these consultants, Steve Herbits, was hired by Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld as a “consultant with a license to analyze current problems.” In May 2003, three weeks after Bush gave a press conference under a banner reading ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Herbits told Rumsfeld that the administration’s six months of planning for the Iraq invasion had been a failure, according to Woodward. “This is not Nancy Pelosi, this is not some think tank, this is not some journalist,” Woodward said...
...self-preservation. Bradley J. Hartman Havana, Florida, U.S. I very much appreciated Weisskopf's article and started to cry when I read about Specialist James Fair, the young man who suffered a brain injury, lost his eyesight and both hands. He weighs on my conscience because I support our mission. I have not reconciled myself to my responsibility for his injuries as an outspoken supporter of our liberation of Iraq. I have work to do on that, and it continues to keep me awake. Karen Howard Redmond, Washington, U.S. Weisskopf's story brought back memories of my experiences in World...
...IOP’s founding gospel is from political life in the 21st century. It’s not as though the IOP fails to recognize this: Its director, former New Hampshire Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, often remarks upon how difficult it is for the IOP to carry out its mission in today’s political climate. Nevertheless, there was something surreal about a weekend of paeans to public service that coincided with reporters in Washington digging through Foley’s perverted instant messages. Surreal, but not especially novel. Except perhaps for a few months following 9/11, politically interested...
...spanish mission-style mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Japan's consul-general is showing off his art collection. With glass of red wine in hand, Tsukasa Kawada points out a triptych of sketches depicting traditional Japanese musicians: Two are by celebrated Australian artist Ken Done, but the third and most colorful is his own work. "I bought this frame and there were three spaces, so I put my own drawing in," the genial Kawada explains. It's a thumb-sized symbol of cultural exchange, and one that is amplified when five Sydney Symphony musicians proceed to perform a sprightly...