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...letter inside accused her and her colleagues of grading students too harshly, said Dr. Mohammed, who is still afraid to have her name appear in print. The implication of the threat, she explained, was that holding students to high classroom standards meant they had less time to resist American invaders...
...Despite the looming threat of being called back to serve—Parker said he joined the reserves knowing that “it’s about the sacrifice”—he talks about the transition from the frontline to the lab in an upbeat tone...
...administration’s CIA analysts did. He trusted the 1998 intelligence, and said he believed that Saddam “was like Fearless Leader in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, where in reality he was delusional.” But given his own belief in the weapons threat at the time, Carter said, “I wouldn’t have done anything differently.”MEA CULPA? Allison may not be able to find his betting book, but some professors at Summers’ dinner discussion still remember the tenor of expert opinion before...
...reason for that is clear enough: the memory of Tiananmen Square, undeniably, now hangs in the background as the crisis in Tibet unfolds in this, the year of China's grand coming-out party. The scale of the unrest in the Tibet Autonomous Region - as well as the threat they pose to the Communist Party leadership - doesn't compare to the massive political demonstrations in Tiananmen Square in 1989, which were brutally put down by Chinese military troops. But the issue, at bottom, was the same: how to respond? And here, China may well understand that 1989 was a long...
...Wang Hong Bing, the Dongcheng District Director of the Ministry of Propaganda. What was the secret to winning state approval? Says Ambassador Kelleher, "A lot of hard work and a lot of assurances." Adds Minister Roach, "Ireland is a very, very small country. No one sees it as a threat. It doesn't have an agenda." And, of course, there had been something of a dry run, last year, in China's first ever St. Patrick's Day Parade, held in Shanghai, a city traditionally more open to foreigners...