Word: nadav
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...doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including Chomsky, and, for that matter, many leading supporters of Israel. Beit-Hallahmi, who appeared on WBGH's "Public Television Evening News" as an expert (along with Harvard's Nadav Safran), has written and lectured extensively on Israel's odious ties with South Africa...
...looks as if we will have a Likud-led coalition," Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran told 200 people at a Kennedy School forum yesterday...
However, after the scandal two years ago involving professors' links to the CIA, one would expect the Harvard community, too, to be concerned with the role of the CIA on campus. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran was commissioned by the CIA to write a book and hold a conference--without disclosing his CIA involvement. In the wake of these revelations, Safran was forced to resign from his post as director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and President Bok issued guidlines about disclosing CIA funding for academic research...
Instead of condemnation, the University should be commended for being bold enough to reject knee-jerk sentiment and come to terms with the CIA. Two years ago, it was revealed that in exchange for research funds. Harvard professors Nadav Safran and Samuel P. Huntington had allowed the CIA to review their work before publication. The new K-School contract represents an amazing evolution from the secrecy and deception surrounding those incidents...
After the deception and secrecy surrounding CIA funding of research projects by Harvard professors Nadav Safran and Samuel P. Huntington, the unprecedented openness of the new program would seem to justify a suspension of the skepticism that should accompany activities involving the CIA. The CIA is acknowledging itself as the source of funding for a study and has agreed to let the results be published. But by that action the CIA meets only the bare minimum of requirements necessary for any liberal institution...