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Makiya, in his visit to northern Iraq, devoted himself to collecting documentation of the genocide, an effort that culminated in his work on an award-winning 1992 documentary, “Saddam’s Killing Fields...
...speakers hosted by Winthrop, was late to the event, and his talk was interrupted twice by his Blackberry. Winthrop House Master Stephen P. Rosen said that he invited Summers to speak because “he has always been committed to the College and always made the effort to visit the Houses.” The former Treasury secretary also devoted much of his prepared speech to a discussion of the country’s current economic turmoil—in particular, yesterday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to lend up to $30 billion to JPMorgan Chase...
...past the statistics to get a sense of what Baghdad feels like. So what I'm going to try to do with my story is apply some personal litmus tests to the surge. Can I go to the restaurants I grew very fond of in Baghdad that I could visit two and a half years ago? Can I go to the markets, the shops that I used to go to? Can I go to and visit friends in their homes without endangering them - foreigner coming to the neighborhood? Can I take a boat ride down the Tigris...
...program for Iraqi militants. "We don't have the proof that the American have," says Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. "Normally the intelligence information the Americans have is not allowed to circulate." The issue was also not discussed, al-Dabbagh says, in official talks during Ahmadinejad's recent visit to Baghdad, where the Iranian leader enjoyed a warm reception that reflected deepening ties between Iran and Iraq. Iran has offered unflinching denials of subversive and anti-U.S. activity in Iraq...
...high-altitude life in the Andes. It is also "used by healers and in ceremonial offerings to the gods," says Ana Maria Chavez, a coca seller in La Paz, who refers to her product as "the sacred leaf." Pope John Paul II even drank coca tea on a 1988 visit to Bolivia. It is, says Chavez, "part...