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Juliette N. Kayyem ’91, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was appointed Undersecretary of Homeland Defense for Massachusetts by Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 last Wednesday. Kayyem, who has a Lebanese-American father and Lebanese immigrant mother, is...
Columnist Joe Klein's admiration for outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan was misplaced and misguided [Dec. 25, 2006--Jan. 1, 2007]. Annan's 10 years at the U.N. saw the organization's effectiveness and reputation drop to new lows. The list of scandals, misappropriations and misdeeds was surpassed only...
Even more problematic is the report’s support for an arbitrary deadline of early 2008 for an American military withdrawal. In response, Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), a revered Vietnam veteran and presidential candidate for 2008, called this deadline “a recipe that will lead...
Saddam Hussein may have lost his life today. But he really died on Dec. 13, 2003. That was the day he was found by U.S. forces, hiding in a hole on a relative's farm outside his hometown of Tikrit. No one in Iraq had ever seen him more vulnerable...
But it took Iraqis a remarkably short time to get the tyrant out of their psyche. One reason was that there were so many new terrors with which to contend - roadside bombs, suicide bombers, kidnappings and, eventually, sectarian slaughter. The other reason was the televised trial of Saddam, which served...