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...best places to launch a career, Kopp was named one of 2008’s 100 most influential people by TIME Magazine, and Education Week wrote about two TFA alumni who advised the Obama campaign.Last year Teach for America received a record number of 24,700 applications. Three thousand, seven hundred people were selected and joined the program. Thirty-three of them were from Harvard.‘HAPPY AND STABLE’Those seniors who have already committed to TFA say they are eager to begin their two-year tenures with the program.Elizabeth A. Texeira...
...Thirty-thousand, two-hundred, ninety six Subway restaurants are currently open around the world, and Harvard Square will soon be host to another. A Subway Restaurant will open in The Garage “somewhere in mid-January” if all goes according to schedule, said Sanjay Kansagra, the future owner of the store. “The plans are done, now it is matter of just building it,” said John P. DiGiovanni, president of Trinity Property Management, the firm that owns The Garage. According to DiGiovanni, the construction process generally takes a month...
...became living proof that one President's trash can be another President's treasure. The decorated veteran is most remembered for his controversial role as Army Chief of Staff in the Bush Administration. His testimony in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding the need for several hundred thousand troops in Iraq was challenged and dismissed as "wildly off the mark" by the Department of Defense. Spoiler alert: Shinseki ended up being right, but his public dissent of the Administration's estimate irreparably strained his relationship with his superiors. He unceremoniously retired in June...
Shinseki has avoided the public eye since retiring five years ago. One month before the Iraq War began, he testified before Congress that several hundred thousand soldiers would be needed to secure Iraq after the U.S. invasion, far more than the Administration had said were needed. He supported the military tradition of preparing for the worst, deploying more troops than might be necessary and then bringing the surplus home. He accurately predicted that ethnic tensions would trigger violence in Iraq and require significant ground forces to contain. The war ultimately required a "surge" of 30,000 additional troops beginning...
...overlook just how meek his public challenge to Rumsfeld was. He never volunteered it. Senator Carl Levin had to extract it from him, slowly and painfully, during a Senate hearing. That's when, in February 2003, Shinseki said he felt that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed. Forty-eight hours later, it was the derisive reaction of Wolfowitz, who never served in the military, that Shinseki's estimate was "wildly off the mark" that cemented Shinseki's legacy. (Many soldiers still haven't forgiven him for outfitting the entire Army in the distinctive black...