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After the Kurdish debacle, the CIA will probably find it increasingly difficult to persuade the U.S. Congress to fund similar operations in Iraq and all but impossible to recruit new operatives. "The CIA has fled and abandoned a large number of people," says Rend Rahim Francke, director of the anti-Saddam Iraq Foundation in Washington. "All Iraqis--all those in the opposition--feel extremely let down by the U.S." The damage may also spill into the CIA's semicovert operation, aimed at moderating the regime in Iran. "It's going to give pause to anyone wanting to work with...
More generally, an academic sees the University from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. The ideal type of scholar recognizes the centrality of teaching and learning in the University. The ideal Corporation member sees Harvard from this angle. We need to stop the rend of universities being run as businesses rather than as academic Institutions, the last bastion of a liberal arts education in this country. The scholar values learning for learning's sake, a goal which should be synonymous with the mission of the University...
...Benjamin Netanyahu has charted a course of loyal opposition, making clear that he respects the authority of the Labor government even as he vehemently disagrees with its policies. Still, a small but significant fringe has emerged on the right which callously disregards the rule of law--and threatens to rend asunder the Israeli social and political fabric...
...father to take a harder line. On the very day that the U.S. succeeded once again in blocking efforts by France, Russia and China to loosen the sanctions, the two Americans were seized after they entered Iraq. "They're certainly in the mood to make this an incident," says Rend Francke, executive director of the Washington-based Iraq Foundation, a pro-democracy think tank...
...Rend control was enacted three decades ago inpart to prevent expansion by Harvard and MIT intoCambridge's old neighborhoods. It reduced theincentive for Harvard to become a landlord bymaking it more difficult to make money by rentingspace...