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...with its unmatched legions can undertake the obvious need to “reorder this world around us,” as Prime Minister Tony Blair phrased the task after September 11, 2001. To do so, though, American leaders must move beyond the historical resistance to empire. As Harvard scholar Michael Ignatieff wrote in a January New York Times article, the U.S. has acquired its empire “in a state of deep denial.” President George Bush last summer told graduating students at West Point that “America has no empire to extend...
...supervision would be easier to sustain if not for the emergence of an exile so favored by the Pentagon. Chalabi has been preparing for this moment almost from the day his wealthy, politically prominent family was forced to flee after Iraq's monarchy fell in 1958. An elegant scholar with a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, he helped found the umbrella opposition I.N.C. in 1992, and his political savvy earned him pre-eminence in anti-Saddam exile circles. To his passionate supporters, who include Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he's a selfless...
...PICTURE Covering the crisis beyond Iraq, an Islamic scholar traces the history of holy war and Muslim rage from the 7th century to the modern suicide bomber
...Beers, which controls some 60% of the world's diamond production, posted 15.7% sales growth last year, to $5 billion. Much of the credit falls to Penny, 40, director of the firm's London-based Diamond Trading Co. and newly appointed executive director of De Beers' board. A Rhodes scholar from South Africa, Penny championed De Beers' supplier-of-choice program, which seeks to drive up diamond sales through better branding...
Lemann fills a vacancy left by fellow journalist and media scholar Tom Goldstein, who stepped down last June after five years as dean...