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...like twin antediluvian monstrosities: too ugly, too wonky, too scaly and strange to flourish in today's cold political climate when the blinding comet of television has wiped out their kind, leaving only furry grinning mammals behind. Richard Nixon barely knew Henry Kissinger when he appointed him, notes Robert Dallek in Nixon and Kissinger, but they turned out to be two of a kind: both the products of unhappy childhoods, both paranoid, combative, grandiose, deceptive, relentlessly driven men. They shared power on an unprecedented basis, and it's hypnotic and--retroactively--terrifying to watch this unsteady Siamese-twin act toddling...
...Impoverished and Afraid Alex Perry's excellent article "Land of Chains and Hunger" highlighted the tragedy of Zimbabwe under the rule of President Robert Mugabe [April 23]. Another loser is South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki and his ineffective policy of "quiet diplomacy" (what South Africans call "silent diplomacy"). Mbeki's supposedly close ties with Mugabe have not helped him develop a plan to rescue Zimbabwe from its dire situation, and his government needs to shoulder responsibility for its indecisiveness. While it may be difficult to imagine the situation in Zimbabwe worsening, it will, and South Africa will surely feel...
Keith J. Collar '86, the executive director of research, innovation, and outreach at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (GSE), and Senior Lecturer on Molecular and Cellular Biology Robert Lue told Allston residents on Monday about outreach programs that the University already has in place in the New England area and the rest of the country...
...Former Kennedy School Dean Robert D. Putnam said the new position would allow Faust to “free herself” from the day-to-day management of administrative operations...
...University’s seven vice presidents—Vice President for Finance Elizabeth Mora, Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann, and Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser. Faust wrote in her e-mail that Vice President for Public Affairs Alan J. Stone, University General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ‘83, Vice President for Policy A. Clayton Spencer, and the incoming vice president for alumni affairs and development, whom Faust has not yet appointed, will continue to report directly to the president...