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Steven B. Bloomfield ’77, associate director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, decided to organize the weekly walk nine months ago as a response to the Abu Ghraib scandals...
...moment of conscience in which I was reacting to the Abu Ghraib prison torture and abuse that Americans were perpetrating,” Bloomfield says. “I came to think it was a behavior that needed to be recognized, there needed to be a public coming together of people, and the awareness that the people of Arab nations were not being served by these acts...
...rest of the world also expressed vehement disapproval of the King's power grab. The United States and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan both demanded the immediate restoration of democracy. British ambassador Keith Bloomfield called the takeover a "coup" and his government said it was reconsidering all foreign aid to Nepal?a dire threat for a country where the average annual income is just $240 and where 42% of the population lives below the poverty line. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, who has accused the Nepalese army of torturing and murdering people with impunity, expressed outrage that...
First-year Emma J. Bloomfield ’08 perused the book as well. “I don’t think I would have been attracted to this book in the bookstore. It’s more geared toward parents. If it had been given to me I might have perused it really quickly and I would have decided that it’s mostly amusing, and there’s a lot of truth in the quotes but it’s very muddled and there are a lot of contradictions...
...book may have posed a problem. “There’s no broad introduction,” Bloomfield said. “This format just makes me think the book is more geared toward amusing people rather than really giving a succinct impression of the first year in college...