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...leaving Iraq to the Iraqi people.” Hosted by the Campus Political Society, last Thursday’s debate—the fourth in a semester-long series of seven—explored the question “How and under what conditions the United States should withdraw from Iraq?” In front of a crowd of about 60 attendees, graduate student Kaveri Rajaraman and Katherine E. Smith ’10 argued for immediate U.S. withdrawal on behalf of the Harvard College Student Advocates for Human Rights and the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice...
...small window into Iran-contra and my impression was that Gates was never one of the main players, if one at all. Although I wasn't surprised that the scandal forced him to withdraw his nomination to replace Casey in 1987, I also wasn't surprised that Congress and the special prosecutor essentially gave him a pass. Or that in 1991 he eventually was confirmed as CIA director. Gates didn't mind being the little gray man, keeping his name off policies that could blow up in his face...
...early this morning, with 95 percent of precincts reporting, “no” votes on question three edged out affirmatives, 52-48. Seven of Cambridge’s 33 precincts voted on a non-binding resolution that asks representatives to support a resolution calling for immediate withdrawal from Iraq. About three-quarters of Cantabrigians who voted on the issue supported the resolution to withdraw. The question appeared on ballots in 139 towns across the state. —Staff writer Stephanie S. Garlow can be reached at sgarlow@fas.harvard.edu...
Such was last year’s divestment campaign led by Harvard’s Darfur Action Group. Then, thousands of man hours were spent convincing universities and pension plan managers to withdraw their investments from Chinese oil companies doing blood-stained business in Darfur...
...divested all of us from the anxiety that we might be somehow guilty. The panging sensation of complicity is not new—it welled up in Pontius Pilate some millennia ago. He didn’t withdraw his investments from the timber industry—in those days, a literal hand-washing sufficed—but the message was clear: I’m not to blame for whatever happens...