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...have] an incredible group of 23 dioramas,” explained Museum Director Dr. James F. O’Keefe ’67. Harvard’s Crimson Key Society held its annual board retreat in the forest last winter. After a foliage-packed weekend, President Nicole T. Townsend ’07 gave the earthy vacation spot a thumbs up. “It was great to get away and not worry about campus activities,” she said. “I imagine the forest would be absolutely gorgeous in this spring weather...
...main novelty of this report, submitted by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend, is that it is hell-bent on looking forward. Yes, this happens to be politically convenient. No administration relishes pointing fingers at itself. But it is also a reasonable next step, given that hurricane season is just a few months away...
...same time the Administration was chest-thumping about this victory in the war on terror, Townsend had to acknowledge that it is grappling with one of the worst examples of non-cooperation. Over the weekend, 13 convicted Al Qaeda members being held in a Yemeni jail escaped, including the reputed mastermind of the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole. Townsend acknowledged that the jailbreak is "of enormous concern to us, especially given the capabilities and the expertise of the people who were there." All 13 had been housed together, she said, and "we are disappointed that their restrictions...
...sharp contrast to the isolation of prisoners kept at American-controlled facilities in Guantanamo Bay and around the globe. For its part, the Embassy of Yemen in Washington, D.C., did not return calls for comment. The U.S. is working closely with Saudi Arabia to find the escapees, said Townsend, a number of which Saudi Arabia itself had turned over to Yemen. The escape, said Townsend, is "a great, if not a greater, threat" to Saudi Arabia...
...timing of the foiled plot's disclosure, coming as it did as the Administration defends its controversial wiretapping program, struck many observers as more than a little curious. According to Townsend, the White House declassified the details of the 2002 plot because most of the leads in the investigation had been exhausted. A senior Administraion official brushed aside the notion that the speech was timed to this week's grilling of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales over the NSA program, noting that today's speech has been in the works since last year. "It takes forever to sign off on declassification...