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...From the outset, the Bush Administration was overly optimistic and in many ways unprepared for the myriad, messy challenges of rebuilding Iraq. The Pentagon had expected the postwar transition in Iraq to be orderly and quick, without requiring a major, long-term commitment of U.S. forces and other resources. Washington, it now seems, spent too much time thinking about how to reform institutions and not enough time on how to provide people with basic security or infrastructure such as electrical grids, oil-refining equipment, hospitals and museums...
...remove his name. Seton Hall’s administrators have investigated revisions to their gift policies that would allow them to remove the names of shamed donors from their buildings. Harvard should follow their lead. We should be certain that we are carefully screening our donors from the outset of the giving process and should include provisions in our contracts with them that would allow us to remove their names at our discretion...
Followers of stock car racing largely understand their sport’s unique attachment to U.S. forces overseas. Such feelings were movingly articulated by NASCAR president Mike Helton at the outset of Operation Iraqi Freedom. “We believe there is a special bond between our troops and our sport,” he said. “Each branch of the American military is represented in NASCAR racing, and our chairman, Bill France, has always described NASCAR fans as ‘the kind of people who go to war and win wars for America...
...outset of my service as an Overseer I was appointed to be the liaison with the Office for the Arts. What I have tried to do since, perhaps pushily, is expand that role into general arts advocacy. Of course there are and have been other Overseers similarly impassioned: I think of Dick Oldenburg, the former head or the Museum of Modern Art and of American Sotheby’s and last year’s president of the Overseers, who was no mean arts advocate himself, especially in the visual arts...
...from the outset of the question and answer session, attendees expressed concern about how, by whom and when the recommendations would be put into effect...