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...hopeless effort to find out the truth under the layers of lies. It was, Reeves writes, "a White House of lies, a house organized for deception...even the insiders themselves could no longer penetrate to reality." Two of the most startling examples of the culture of deception occurred at summit meetings Nixon had with the Soviets and the Chinese. In both cases, Nixon and his National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, asked the foreign leaders to join them in lies to deceive Nixon's own Secretary of State, William Rogers...
...already spent a few hours with students and staff at Phillips Brooks House and visited the Mission Hill Summer Program, one of the dozen urban camps staffed and run by the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA). In addition, several weeks ago he held audience at the Public Service Leadership Summit, a three-day event sponsored by the FAS Committee on Public Service that brought together about 25 student leaders on campus. Admitting that he was impressed with our public service endeavors considering that we could be otherwise advancing our careers, he raised and answered some questions that sparked much discussion...
...agreed that “public service” is necessarily a broad term. This was the underlying belief of the summit organizers, who selected students not just from PBHA and other, more typical “public service” programs but also from publications and ethnic groups who serve the common good. But many of us took issue with Summers’ skepticism about the public service value of advocacy programs. We argued that advocacy groups like the Progressive Student Labor Movement, when they provoke discussion and the pursuit of truth, are a form of public service...
...following a failed car bomb attempt in Lille on the eve of a G7 summit there, French cops picked up two ethnic-Arab suspects, one of whom cracked under questioning and revealed the true nature of "gang of Roubaix." The group was in fact a collection of Muslim militants (most of them white French converts) who had been radicalized during visits to Bosnia. Robbery was used to finance arms purchases, and to create false ID documents to facilitate the movement of Islamist terrorists transiting France. The group had recruited men for their "holy war," and had staged attacks when instructed...
...that specifically criticised the government’s mismanagement of the country, Mapfumo has been touring the United States for several months, playing with a considerably downsized band from the nearly 20 piece ensemble he headed in Zimbabwe. During a career spanning over 20 years, Mapfumo has reached the summit of acclaim in Zimbabwe and has earned a sizeable fan base in the U.S. as well, allowing his albums to be released internationally...