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...Giuliani had an unusual opportunity to cram foreign policy when he was invited to join the Iraq Study Group by the co-chairman, former Secretary of State James Baker III, in February 2006. Giuliani accepted, becoming one of just 10 people, including former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, in the Congressionally mandated group. He participated in a conference call to discuss logistics but then did not attend the first two major meetings. On those days, he delivered paid speeches...
...much eco-anxiety that we'll want to commit eco-suicide. The solutions promoted here are very much design-oriented, showing all the ways we can plot and plan our way to a more energy-efficient, sustainable tomorrow, today. Green architecture gets star placement, and eco-design gurus like William MacDonough talk about the need to create "cradle-to-cradle" products that can be recycled, or reincarnated, over and over. It might be a conscious choice, and a good one, to appeal to the tech-loving young. Surely if the magnificent human mind can create something as wondrous...
...seat on a crowded Greyhound bus to a white person. Having kicked the policeman who removed her from the bus, she pleaded guilty to resisting arrest but refused to pay a $10 fine for violating Virginia's Jim Crow laws. Her case, argued by NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and William Hastie, worked its way to the Supreme Court, which in 1946 ruled segregation on interstate buses unconstitutional...
...Taliban. Afghan forces, on the other hand, understand local culture and can live within communities, gathering intelligence and establishing security. "Every Afghan soldier that can fight effectively reduces U.S. boots on the ground, earns critical support from Afghans and has the potential to reduce collateral damage," says U.S. Ambassador William Wood...
...securities lawyers, as well as SEC veterans, view the report as deeply flawed. "I have never seen any situation or instance where somebody has made a judgment based on the who, and the influence, and the power; I don't think that's the way they make judgments," argues William McLucas, a 20-year SEC veteran, and former enforcement division chief, who now works for the prominent D.C. law firm WilmerHale...