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...DIED. ANDREW HEISKELL, 87, former chairman of Time Inc. and philanthropist; in Darien, Connecticut. Erudite, despite never having graduated from college, Heiskell began as a pictorial editor for Life and rose to become publisher of the magazine. As chairman of Time Inc. he oversaw the closing of Life and the creation of People magazine. After retiring in 1980, Heiskell raised hundreds of millions of dollars for libraries as chairman of the New York Public Library's trustees, and promoted urban renewal in blighted areas of New York City as head of the Enterprise Foundation's advisory board...
...Singapore-based al-Qaeda expert Rohan Gunaratna asserts that the two groups are much more closely linked, that bin Laden himself oversaw the formation of their alliance "soon after U.S. troops entered Afghanistan. But now this understanding has become very deep. There's integration between the organizations." It amounts to a division of labor: the Taliban focus on southern Afghanistan and Hizb-i-Islami on the east, which frees al-Qaeda "to use its limited strength for operations overseas," explains Gunaratna. (Several U.S. and Afghan intelligence sources, however, suspect al-Qaeda engineered a June 7 suicide bombing in Kabul that...
...tomato greenhouses he helped build in Baghdad for a seeding project are smashed and looted. Some 1,200 patients at an Iraqi psychiatric hospital who were relying on his group for food had escaped or been released, and now about half have straggled back. Edward Miller, who once oversaw several of the Mennonite Central Committee's Iraqi charities before the war (it spent $6.4 million in 10 years) and recently returned to pick up their pieces, has his work cut out for him. But one thing is not on his to-do list: evangelizing. Mennonite representatives delivering aid in Muslim...
...worked with Lewis to oversee House life, will now take on new responsibilities ranging from serving as the College’s “liaison” to undergraduate athletics to taking reports from the secretary of the College’s Administrative Board, two tasks that Lewis oversaw himself...
Another expanded associated deanship in the newly-announced structure is the one into which current Director of Philips Brooks House Judith H. Kidd will step on a temporary basis. Kidd’s post combines her old job, several tasks Lewis oversaw himself, and the post held by David P. Illingworth ’71, an associate dean who announced this month that he is stepping down (see related story, above...