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...Panamanian dictator and convicted drug trafficker Manuel Noriega, the late Argentine junta leader imprisoned for human rights abuses Leopoldo Galtieri, and Salvadoran right-wing militia leader Maj. Roberto D'Aubuisson. Despite adding a "human rights" element to its curriculum in recent years, the school has engendered so much suspicion and hostility that it was dubbed the School of Assassins...
...wasn't taking chances. During the three-year hunt for him, al-Zarqawi was a maddeningly elusive target--a master of disguise who could pass as a woman in a burqa one day, an Iraqi policeman the next. He traveled in groups of women and children to lower suspicion and frequently moved with ease through checkpoints in Iraq. Although military commanders believe they came close to capturing al-Zarqawi on at least half a dozen occasions in the past two years, few had reason to anticipate an imminent breakthrough. But military and intelligence officials in Washington, Baghdad and Amman tell...
...affecting fundraising.“The fact that Harvard presidents come and go has far less impact on the donor pool than the general economic environment,” says Murr, who also served as a member of the executive committee of the CUR. “My own suspicion is that robust stock markets and high faculty morale are the key long-term elements to fundraising.”—Staff writer Reed B. Rayman can be reached at rrayman@fas.harvard.edu...
...dozen former and current department heads wrote to the six-member panel charged with finding a replacement for Conrad K. Harper [see page 11], who had stepped down from the Harvard Corporation due to disagreements with Summers. The chairs spoke of “the atmosphere of mistrust and suspicion that has been created over the past four years” of Summers’ leadership. They called for the new Corporation member to have “a close affiliation with the academic world.” At a late September meeting, McDonald and Andrew A. Biewener, the chair...
...lucky enough to be accepted into one of the three Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs that flourished on the campus. But despite Harvard’s vigorous ROTC program, the powerful anti-communist forces that were gaining increasing influence in American life were looking on the University with suspicion. Something of a watershed was reached when a student organization invited Howard Fast, a prolific author and a well-known American communist, to speak at one of its periodic forums. Fast was to debate Professor Edwin O. Reischauer (who later became U.S. ambassador to Japan) on the causes...