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Both Freshman and Rosen, who have been best friends since freshman year, paid tribute to their advisor Judith Sklar. "We owe a lot to her support and excitement," Rosen said...
...think of him, there is no denying that Leiken is, as Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, puts it, "an important player." This week the House of Representatives reconsiders the Reagan Administration's contra aid package. If it is passed, the White House will owe a measure of thanks to Leiken. Through his testimony on the Hill and his published arguments, he has played a significant role in developing the compromise bill that was passed three weeks ago by the Senate. The Reagan Administration hopes that this bill will be similarly palatable to Republicans...
Most Saudis owe their prosperity to the vast amounts of money the government has poured into development projects over the past decade. While some of these, like the $3.4 billion international airport at the capital city of Riyadh, are attractive and useful, others seem destined for white elephanthood. One 1,800-acre complex dubbed the "diplomatic quarter" features a lavish sports club complete with a wave machine that creates surf in a vast swimming pool. Though the club is intended to house 7,000 diplomats and their families, skeptics question whether it will attract a third that number...
...letter in 1934, and he was not kidding. He agreed to be best man at the wedding of Poet Vernon Watkins, his closest and most loyal confidant, and then failed to show up for the ceremony. To his credit, Thomas usually knew when he had behaved unconscionably. "I owe you so many apologies I don't know where to begin," he opened one missive in 1950, and variations on this formula abound in his letters. He disarmed anger or outrage through self-castigation: "My selfish carelessness and unpunctuality I do not try to excuse as poet's properties. They...
...exhibited an appalling lack of respect for your electorate and a very poor judgment in this matter, and I will be urging voters in my class, other alumni, and other members of the Harvard community to register their discontent in a variety of ways. At the very least, you owe us all a public explanation Whitney Davis '80 Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows