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Outside of Harvard, Schneider Enriquez’s curatorial experience has included a retrospective of contemporary Latin American photographer Gerardo Suter that traveled nationally. Her 1995 exhibit, “Mexico: A Landscape Revisited”—launched in conjunction with the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.—toured internationally...
...cynical Harvard student and going to ask why you should do it? Because it is only seven questions long for students and because it is the primary way governments know how to distribute services and how Washington distributes over $400 billion in federal money. Funding for everything from the roads to the buses to law enforcement is affected by the Census, and if you don’t participate, less money comes to the Harvard area...
...warlord General Rashid Dostum and Tajik strongman General Mohammed Fahim - even if that means turning a blind eye to their transgressions. He is also keen to take charge of negotiating a political settlement with the Taliban on his own timetable, and with less of a role for Pakistan than Washington might be ready to concede to Islamabad. Just as U.S. influence in Iraq declined precipitously once its intention to withdraw became clear, so is Karzai's game plan premised on getting along without the U.S., even though he'll do his best to keep it there as long as possible...
Like Pakistan over the past eight years, Karzai has been biding his time, positioning himself for the battles and power shifts that will come when the Americans leave, his goal - like Islamabad's - being to protect his power. And the arrival in Washington of the Obama Administration signaled the onset of the endgame. Driven by a desire to conclude America's fiscally burdensome wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and alarmed by the downward security spiral in Afghanistan, the Obama Administration put Karzai on notice that failure to tackle the corruption that was deemed to be fueling the insurgency would jeopardize...
...should come as no surprise, then, that in the endgame, Karzai has revealed an agenda quite distinct from that of Washington - just as Pakistan has done. The premise of the U.S. policy, after all - just like that of the Pakistanis, Karzai, the Taliban and every other player in the game - is that sooner or later, the Americans will leave. And it's that reality, now more than ever, that is shaping everyone's game...