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The Bush administration recently submitted to Congress a request for $87 billion to cover a complex mixture of security and reconstruction costs over the next fiscal year. This was accompanied by tough and stirring words stressing the U.S. plans to follow through on security, reconstruction and nation-building challenges related...
As for the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld-who is beginning to resemble Humphrey Bogart's unhinged Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny-lost his temper last week at the news that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was, finally, trying to coordinate the government's reconstruction efforts in Iraq. He said he...
Though Sert’s work has been largely neglected, contemporary issues both at Harvard and abroad make this current retrospective timely. Recent attention to the physical reconstruction of Kabul and Baghdad by urban planners, as well as the ongoing row over Harvard’s development plans in Riverside...
The failure to get the costs right turned on two false assumptions: that Iraq's infrastructure was in relatively decent shape and that Iraqi oil exports would pay for much of the country's reconstruction. But Iraq's electricity grid is barely functional, and its oil installations aren't much...
The Crimson’s Oct. 1 article “Renovation Planned for HBS Library” gives the mistaken impression that the renovation and reconstruction of Baker Library will result mainly in what amounts to a student center. In fact, Harvard Business School’s Spangler Center...