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...American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the American Enterprise Institute, and officials such as Paul D. Wolfowitz and Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, who they claim stifle discussion of Israel’s flaws.“Israel is in fact a liability in the war??on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue states,” the authors added.Walt and Mearsheimer call this movement responsible for American hesitance toward the Middle East peace process and for the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and they...
...trillion. Bilmes says she began her analysis last spring, after some of her students asked her how much the war was costing America. Before the war, Lawrence B. Lindsay, then the director of the Bush administration’s National Economic Council, had said the war??s cost could reach between $100 billion and $200 billion, but other Bush officials called that figure excessive. Bilmes says she could not find any economist who had dealt with the question methodically postwar, so she investigated herself. When Bilmes published an article about her initial findings in The New York Times...
...paid anywhere from $4,000 to $10,000 for the hour-long engagements. The story of his capture was eventually published in a 1989 book called “Two Lives, One Russia.” The book, which was intended as an “inside the Cold War?? story, yielded only mediocre sales because by the time it hit bookstands, the Soviet Union had begun to crumble.When he isn’t teaching classes on ethics and journalism at Northeastern, Daniloff is working on another project: authoring his memoirs. The book chronicles...
...night in a certain College chamber.’”Although many members of the Class of 1956 accepted these restrictions as a sign of the times, the alleviation of these rules still elicited the attention of the Student Council, house masters, and deans.‘WAR?? FOR FREEDOMFor the Class of 1956, most members had come to accept parietals as a way of life, marking a shift from the post-World War II period. War veterans who returned to Harvard as undergraduates, hardened from years of fighting, were much older and less likely...
...overall goal is to permanently consign the link between development aid and strategic self-interest—the “he may be a sonofabitch but he’s our sonofabitch” school of foreign policy that dominated aid during the Cold War??to the dustbin of history.The World Bank’s traditional reluctance to speak out against breaches of press freedom stemmed from concern for the sovereignty of the offending country. Press freedom, however, is more than just a matter of domestic policy; independent scrutiny of the government is a fundamental human right...