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Fifteen-hundred dead because of what you did!” This and other jeers were thrown at Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith ’75 as he spoke at an Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum on March 3. The contentious nature at the Forum was not at all surprising given that Feith was defending the war in Iraq, and he was undoubtedly prepared for this. But the heckling Feith received from some audience members went beyond asking tough questions and showed a complete lack of decorum. Such behavior is simply unacceptable...
...Forum is a chance for politicians or experts to express their opinions and then have their viewpoints questioned in a hard but polite manner. At the same time, the IOP needs to ensure that speakers are challenged during the question session—which some claim Feith was not—and it should tweak the question-and-answer format in order to achieve this goal...
Recognizing a journalist who has done distinguished work on the Asia-Pacific region, the award is given jointly by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the KSG and the Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies at Stanford University’s Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), said Alex S. Jones, the Center’s director...
...kind of appropriate in the 21st century that we honor someone with a Bengali background, originally from India, who established his career on the edge of China, and who is now in Connecticut...He is truly a global citizen,” said Director of Southeast Asia Forum at APARC Donald K. Emmerson, one of the judges from Stanford...
...summit is a collaborative effort of several student groups including the Harvard Black Men’s Forum (BMF), Harvard AIDS Coalition, Harvard African Student’s Association, and Harvard Concert Commission...