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...assuming you're really going to keep your mouth shut on this subject?" HENRY KISSINGER, U.S. Secretary of State under Gerald Ford, talking to his staff in 1975 about the U.S. government's prior knowledge of Indonesia's plan to invade East Timor that December, according to newly declassified memos...
...forgiven for lifting his eyes to the horizon. Once the subject of withering criticism from human-rights groups for his authoritarian ways and intolerance of dissent, he is now widely acknowledged as Asia's most respected senior statesman. Others may pen lengthy memoirs and seek to use their years on the world stage to tout their punditry and powers of prediction. Some can even lay claim to having guided far larger countries or served as leaders for longer than Lee. But Lee is unique. It is not just that his cold-eyed, totally nonideological analysis has set him apart from...
...peak of his notoriety, some folks called him, inevitably, an international man of mystery; others, the death merchant. He was the subject of the 1986 best seller Manhunt: the Dramatic Pursuit of a CIA Agent Turned Terrorist, by Peter Maas. The former Marine, 77, stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and was someone to be reckoned with. But Edwin Wilson's roller-coaster ride as a freelance spy flew off the rails in 1982, when he was lured out of Libya in a sting operation conducted by U.S. marshals. He then was convicted in a series of sensational trials...
...idea that captured Bush's imagination in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina--giving a boost to Catholic and other private schools as an alternative for inner-city children. While Bush still hopes to sign an immigration bill by summer and plans to talk a lot about the subject next year, his program to offer temporary legal status to illegal immigrant workers remains a tough sell with the conservatives in Congress...
...studies,” said former South Asian Association (SAA) Co-President Vinod E. Nambudiri ’05.SASI Chair Shreya N. Vora ’06, defended the large presence of South Asian students in South Asian studies at Harvard. “Though initial attraction to the subject may be based on heritage, this attraction does not compromise the intellectual reasons why many South Asian students eventually commit themselves to the subject,” she said. While the faculty present at the meeting supported the suggestions of the students, Parimal G. Patil, assistant professor of Study...