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Friends say Epstein’s scientific, intellectual and philanthropic interests??not his host of homes or his fleet of aircraft—give him the most satisfaction...
...most egregious acts of foreign policy on the U.S. record. Before entering his period of service to the nation, Kissinger had been a student and then a professor at Harvard. Here he learned and propagated the ideologies and tactics he would later put into action on behalf of American interests??while hiding them as best he could from the American people. This trusty aide and right-hand man helped plan the assassination of foreign leaders in Chile to pave the way for Pinochet, and stood by with weapons while Suharto slaughtered 200,000 East Timorese. He opposed...
...very cultured, very knowledgeable. She was raised in Austria, but she was Korean, so she had a lot of different backgrounds,” she said. “She was eclectic. She had a lot of different interests??music, obviously cognitive science, she read a lot. She was really into European chocolate so she would drop those off for everybody whenever she would find them...
...want some of the $8 billion owed to it by the deposed regime. Meanwhile, France will want contracts for TotalFinaElf, the giant oil company that formerly possessed rights to many of Iraq’s oil fields. This is not to say that United States is devoid of such interests??though as a country that invested its resources in bringing down the Hussein regime, it may possess more of a right to impose them. But the over-involvement of interests pulling the new Iraqi government every which way will only harm the establishment of democracy there...
Summers later concurred with Verba’s distinction. The University, he said, will guard against infringements to its intellectual freedom. Harvard pledges its support to such interests??and will facilitate faculty debate—because possible restrictions of academic freedom directly threaten the University’s most fundamental goals, he said...