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...then there's the strange case of Donald Rumsfeld. Here was a flaming exception to the Bush family code of honor. Rumsfeld was an ancient rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld...
...this because Harvard students are having more fun than peers at rival institutions such as Duke, where nearly half of the undergraduate studies abroad? Perhaps we have a fun czar, but judging by the sallow, despondent looking Harvard students quaffing Starbucks by the gallon come midterm time, I think...
While consecutive hard-fought losses to No. 12 Providence College and No. 5 Duke University were justifiable, last night’s defeat on Jordan Field at the hands of cross-town rival Northeastern (6-6) substantially added to the frustration of the now 0-10 Harvard women’s field hockey team. “I think it was a great cross-town game, a great regional game, a great battle,” said Harvard head coach Sue Caples. “But it gets hard to play always battling back.” After...
...Master Cracks the Whip How John Negroponte won control of the CIA, and what he plans next to consolidate rival agencies and his power
...peace deal. And her Administration's efforts to topple Hamas through a financial siege may have rendered the Palestinian territories ungovernable, not only by Hamas but by anyone. Government is barely existent in much of the West Bank and Gaza, with salaries unpaid and security in the hands of rival bands of gunmen loyal to factions rather than any central authority. Last weekend's deadly clashes between Fatah and Hamas gunmen may simply have been the opening volleys of a Palestinian civil war. Hamas will certainly not go quietly, and retains the support of close to half of mainstream Palestinian...