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...Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense Secretary who oversaw the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, saw little use for toting up enemy KIAs (those killed in action). "If you'll recall the Vietnam War, they had body counts that went on day after day after day," he said in 2006. "The implication of that was that you were winning if the body count went up and losing if the body count went down." Relying on such numbers distracts from the fact that the outcome of the war is more likely to be determined by the political will on each side. The body...
...DAWNING OF A NEW ERAIn 1959, Radcliffe announced the selection of its fifth president, Mary I. Bunting, a microbiologist and a widow with four children.Though Bunting’s power was far eclipsed by then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, Bunting oversaw the final integration of Radcliffe and Harvard and subtly changed Radcliffe’s culture of domesticity. She actively encouraged women to enter the professional world and established the Bunting Institute, designed to encourage the higher education of women.And though members of the class of 1959 did not directly interact with Bunting during...
...hypothetical matter whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter.Ostriker’s daughter remembered that her father was always very excited about his work and said that he loved working with students.During the years Ostriker served as Princeton’s provost, he oversaw the University’s push to reduce student loans, an achievement he took pride in, according to both Socolow and Ostriker’s daughter.After stepping down from his post in 2001 upon Shirley M. Tilghman’s selection as Princeton’s president, Ostriker returned to Cambridge...
...Colombia does not lack for presidential timber, and most candidates pledge to continue Uribe's national-security policies. Chief among them is Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, who oversaw a series of battlefield triumphs including last year's commando raid that rescued 15 guerilla-held hostages. Santos will step down at the end of the month to launch his own presidential bid but said he would pull out if Uribe is allowed to run. The reason? Opinion polls show that in a head-to-head contest, Santos would be trounced by his former boss...
...head of what is the main opposition group, the Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP), Gayoom declined to talk to Time. Thasmeem Ali, his deputy, defended Gayoom's record, insisting the pace of development and reform that Gayoom oversaw suited the Maldives' particular conditions. "People borrow all sorts of political terms - dictatorship and so on - that don't fit here," says Thasmeem. "Gayoom remains our party's and this nation's greatest asset...