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...diversity of the attendees—about 50 percent were Harvard students, and the others were from schools around Boston.” The director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Sarah B. Sewall ’83, delivered the keynote address, speaking about her path to Capitol Hill. Sewall served as President Bill Clinton’s deputy assistant secretary for peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance, as well as the senior foreign policy adviser to former Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. Sewall said that her fear of a nuclear war—a fear developed in college...
...there was ever a good time for George W. Bush to leave home for a spell, it was right after the mid-term elections, when Capitol Hill was aswarm with triumphant Democrats. He spent two weeks abroad, separated by a brief Thanksgiving interlude at Camp David. Air Force One, the Boeing 747 that has its own medical facility, among other amenities, circled the globe twice, serving Swiss burgers and taco salad, with snicker-doodles for dessert. On the ground in Amman, the White House staff did grapple with local dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First...
...when it comes to putting powerful people on the hot seat, there's no one tougher and more tenacious than veteran California Congressman Henry Waxman. In the Democrats' wilderness years, Waxman fashioned himself as his party's chief inquisitor. Working with one of the most highly regarded staffs on Capitol Hill, he has spent the past eight years churning out some 2,000 headline-grabbing reports, blasting the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress on everything from faulty prewar intelligence and flaws in missile defense to the flu-vaccine shortage and arsenic in drinking water...
...Republican officials briefed by the White House tell TIME that the President will have something big to say in coming weeks. The President plans to combine the recommendations of James Baker's Iraq Study Group with findings from his Administration and advice from Capitol Hill into what is being dubbed "a way forward" for Iraq...
...coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos. We put filters on faucets, install air ionizers in our homes and lather ourselves with antibacterial soap. "We used to measure contaminants down to the parts per million," says Dan McGinn, a former Capitol Hill staff member and now a private risk consultant. "Now it's parts per billion...