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What we see, instead, is the bizarre combination of frequent high pronouncements of vast wealth combined with even more frequent pleadings about the need to squeeze the annual operating budget. The recent cutbacks and layoffs of library staff and services are just one example of this...
...chemical and biological arms on which the Bush Administration had predicated its unprecedented, pre-emptive attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, it was Kay. The Texan had spent 20 years as an international weapons inspector, with several tours in Iraq. Hard-nosed and fiercely independent, Kay, 63, had a vast network of friends at the Pentagon and the CIA--and among Iraqis in Baghdad. A political conservative, he sent the Bush campaign a check for $200 not long after Bush began his quest for the G.O.P. presidential nomination in 1999, and he supported a tough line on Saddam. When Tenet...
Tales of machine-shop graft make clear that Saddam had a variety of secret ambitions, and, Kay said repeatedly last week, the Iraqis were doing all kinds of things in violation of international law. But the unspannable gap between the Administration's vast prewar claims and a thin postwar reality has irritated some members of Congress. Democrats complain that they had been duped, and in private some Republicans say they feel the same. Ohio Senator Mike DeWine, a Republican on the Intelligence Committee, told the Columbus Dispatch that he was not sure he would vote to authorize war with Iraq...
Hehir assumed control of the archdiocese’s vast network of social services programs this year with an annual budget of nearly $40 million. While some observers were stunned by Hehir’s decision to leave his national post for a local one, advocates for sexual abuse victims hailed O’Malley’s appointment of Hehir...
University spokesperson Robert P. Mitchell said Katharine Martinez, the Suit librarian of the Fine Arts Library, is now in charge of the archive’s staff and vast collection of prints and videos. Since arriving at Harvard in 1999, Jenkins, a senior lecturer in VES, has run the archive and reported to the VES chair...