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Christi E. Morrissey ’10—who comes from a family with three generations of military officers—was sworn in yesterday by her brother, a fellow officer and Harvard graduate who also participated in ROTC...
Schumacher-Matos quickly pled his case in front of a judge and was sworn in as a U.S. citizen within a week. “It was so obvious,” Schumacher-Matos says. “Here’s a case where the judge saw that the country had put a tremendous investment in me all my life and that I was by all intents and purposes an American kid, and all I needed was this stupid piece of paper, and he gave...
...hard to believe that it has been just over a year since President Obama was sworn into office. The feeling of the nation then was hopeful. American voters had just torn down the nation’s final color barrier, and the youthful, eloquent, and charismatic president-elect offered a welcome promise of change. “All this we can do. All this, we will do” the President declared on that bitter-cold January day, in reference to a lengthy list of dire issues facing the nation. Obama vowed to tackle the nation’s toughest...
Barely a week after Obama’s inauguration, Freeman had already pushed his environmental agenda forward, according to Freeman’s colleague, Georgetown Law School Professor Richard Lazarus. Six days after he was sworn in, the president issued three formal measures on energy and climate change...
Washington's newfound friendship with Islamabad could still fray over one particularly vicious Afghan clan. The NATO forces' most dangerous adversaries are the Haqqanis, who have sworn loyalty to Omar while operating semi-independently in the eastern Afghan provinces and also across the border in Pakistan. Since the days of the jihad against the Soviets, Pakistani spy service the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has kept close ties with the Haqqanis. Now the Pakistanis are resisting demands by Washington to clear the Haqqanis out of their lair in the Pakistani territory of North Waziristan. Pakistani officials insist they will...