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House: Quincy Concentration: Progressively more difficult throughout senior year Hometown: Milwaukee, WI Ideal Date: with Broadway. At the end it decides to put me in all its parts. What do you look for in a girl/guy: Being over 18. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Watching movies on the projector in our room, which was definitely not stolen from any Harvard theatrical organization Your best pick up line: “You’d be surprised, but I make an alarmingly attractive pregnant woman” Best or worst lie you’ve ever told...
...Senior Administration officials briefing journalists on condition of anonymity at the White House hastened to add that, despite recent U.S. overtures to Zardari's chief political rival, opposition leader Nawaz Sharif, there was no question of changing horses midstream. "We are not abandoning or ... distancing ourselves from Zardari," an official said...
...senior Administration officials said Obama would urge both men to set aside the long history of difficult relations between their countries and cooperate in areas ranging from agriculture and trade to border policing and counterterrorism. But both men remain locked in complex political dynamics at home that militate against doing exactly what Washington asks of them. Which is why, in the weeks ahead, Administration officials may have to spend as much time cajoling Congress as they spend persuading the Pakistanis to do more...
...militias at the height of the sectarian killings. General David Petraeus, the former top U.S. commander in Iraq, and former Baghdad Ambassador Ryan Crocker repeatedly quarreled with al-Maliki on the matter throughout 2008, pressing the Prime Minister to clear the way for the trial of at least one senior Ministry of Interior official accused of orchestrating prison abuses and murders. Al-Maliki resisted the U.S. pressure and largely seemed unconcerned about investigating a myriad of cases in which Iraqi security forces, chiefly the national police, remain accused of rape, torture and murder in conjunction with sectarian death squads...
Brigadier General James Milano, the most senior U.S. commander dedicated wholly to working with the Ministry of Interior, said human-rights issues remained a concern regarding the practices of Iraq's police and soldiers going forward. Milano stressed that Iraqi security forces had made improvements in the human-rights realm in recent years. Still, Milano said, U.S. and nongovernmental agencies remain watchful, particularly in Iraqi jails, where reports of human-rights abuses continue to surface, according to U.N. reports. "We participate with them in inspections of detention centers," said Milano, who acknowledged that Iraqi jails face a serious overcrowding problem...