Word: reconstructionism
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This afternoon, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan will address the Harvard community as part of the annual meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. Moments after receiving an honorary degree from the University, Annan will step up to a podium that affords him international attention—a stage...
As time progressed, however, Berry became more and more interested in the incredible impact of the Sept. 11 attacks and how important the reconstruction of lower Manhattan was to so many different constituents. She began to take on a more active role in the council meetings, and started receiving requests...
The reconstruction of Iraq, that grand effort of goodwill intended to win over the hearts and minds of Iraq's citizens, is America's other war, and it is not going quite according to plan. You could say that Halliburton, which holds an exclusive deal to support U.S. soldiers and...
It's a big one. Work in Iraq is parceled out among a handful of companies, but Halliburton has by far the largest share--$17 billion from the U.S. and British governments, several times as much as its closest competitor, Bechtel. Halliburton and the other large contractors work on a...
That may not be enough to quiet the widespread sentiment in Baghdad, among ordinary Iraqis, that the reconstruction process has become another murky theater of corruption. Muhanad Nassiri, an architect, said his firm has bid on a dozen contracts, including one for a security system for the Iraqi National Museum...