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Born in Kent in southeastern England, and trained as an anthropologist at Cambridge and the University of London, Richard joined Yale's faculty in 1972 and served as the school’s chief administrative and financial officer from 1994 until the end of 2002. In 2003, she assumed the vice-chancellorship at Cambridge—the top non-ceremonial position at the university—where she now oversees 31 colleges, 8,500 staff members, and 18,000 students. Her term at Cambridge is set to expire...
General Douglas MacArthur—hoping to drive a hole in Japan’s southeastern flank—landed his forces at Leyte Island in the Philippines on Oct. 20, 1944, a date which he declared “A-Day” (Dwight Eisenhower had already laid claim to the “D”). The A-Day invaders overran Japan’s first line of defenses in less than 24 hours. But then the Japanese moved the fight to the ocean—and there Thomas’ naval narrative sets sail...
...Although the Pakistani military immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, rumors abound in the region that the U.S. may have had a hand in its planning. The lawless region running along the southeastern border with Afghanistan has long been a haven for Islamist militants. A large number of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters retreated there from Afghanistan following the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, and the fugitives currently sheltering there are believed to include Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri. Last January, a botched U.S. air strike in Damadola, two miles from Khar, was meant to take...
...Although DeLay dropped out of his House race after the primary last April, it was too late to get his name off the ballot. Now the Democratic candidate Nick Lampson is the favorite of most oddsmakers to beat the late-starting G.O.P. write-in candidate Shelley Sekula-Gibbs. In southeastern Ohio, former House Administration Committee chairman Bob Ney is retiring after pleading guilty last month to trading favors for campaign contributions from Abramoff. But his handpicked replacement, Joy Padgett, can't shake the taint of scandal. Ney's solidly Republican district favored Bush by 14 percentage points...
...chances of winning key races here are so high that top officials are trying to guard against activists getting complacent. "There is a danger that we may be too overly confident that there is going to be change," said Susan Gwinn, chairman of the Athens County Democratic Party in southeastern Ohio. "That's my biggest concern. I think, frankly, tighter numbers for us at the top of the ticket would probably be more mobilizing. I've heard people who say, 'I am not going to give any more money to that person, because he is so far ahead." And Democrats...