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Uday held less impressive posts. Apart from heading the Olympic Committee, he supervised various Iraqi media outlets and oversaw the Fedayeen Saddam, a ragtag band of armed militants, mostly ex-felons, that eventually became part of Saddam's security apparatus. Whereas Qusay would icily and efficiently murder for his father to further a political aim, his brother pursued a brand of terror that was personal, arbitrary and spontaneous. He was a threat to any father whose daughter might cross his path, to the women themselves, even to his own friends, who, it turns out, were subjected to torture and humiliation...
Spangler, who was first elected to the board in 1998, managed 16 college campuses for 11 years as president of the University of North Carolina (UNC) system and oversaw the education of more than a million students as chair of the state’s Board of Education from...
...order to devote themselves fully to activism. Hard leftists, they ally themselves with many of Concordia’s large Middle-Eastern community on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, making the issue dominate student political life. Widespread apathy has also allowed extremists to flourish in the CSU. The executive that oversaw the Netanyahu riot was elected with less than 7 percent of the vote. But when campaigning, even they had pledged to tone down the extremism of their predecessors and to run the school with “dignity.” Unfortunately they reneged on their promise, titling this year?...
Tonis also oversaw the University police department through the turbulent protests of the 1960s. During the famous 1969 University Hall sit-in, Tonis publicly opposed the plan of then University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 to bring in state and local police to break up the sit-in. After the violent bust, the chief circulated the yard, urging non-violence...
Throughout the trying era he oversaw HUPD, Tonis always remained good-natured about the unique challenges posed by serving a college campus...