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...That attack prompted Ahmadinejad to break a taboo by accusing high-ranking officials - by name - of using their power to enrich themselves. "What do the sons of Mr. Hashemi do in this country? Which one of my ministers has become a billionaire, or taken rents or usurped properties...
...Ahmadinejad insisted he was the first President since the revolution to have secured Iran against U.S. intervention. "For 27 years during your reign [Moussavi was Prime Minister from 1981 to 1989] and those of Mr. Hashemi and Mr. Khatami, the U.S. was seeking to topple the Islamic Republic. Today the U.S. has declared officially that it is not seeking to overthrow us," the President said. (See the photo-essay "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Iranian Paradox...
CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL: (As translated.) Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen. Here in this place a concentration camp was established in 1937. Not far from here lies Weimar, a place where Germans created wonderful works of art, thereby contributing to European culture and civilization. Not far from that place where once artists, poets, and great minds met, terror, violence, and tyranny reigned over this camp. At the beginning of our joint visit to the Buchenwald memorial the American President and I stood in front of a plaque commemorating all the victims. When you put your hand on the memorial...
According to Lauer, the counselor replied, “Mr. Lauer you applying to Harvard would be the biggest waste of 15 dollars in the history of 15 dollars...
...Within two years, the school had obtained funds for both projects. In June of 1957, New York investment broker James L. Loeb gave $1,000,000 for the future drama center; four months later Mr. and Mrs. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter, owners of pear orchards in Oregon, gave $1,500,000 to “completely underwrite a Harvard Visual Arts Center,” according to the Crimson. Close in date, the two gifts were also close in their intent—the Carpenters had originally wanted to donate to the theater until their son, Harlow Carpenter...