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...vacuum that encourages sectarian impulses. But al-Hakim wants to talk instead about the discovery last week of a bus containing the corpses of 18 men, many of them clearly garroted. News reports said the men were Sunnis; al-Hakim says they were Shi'ites. Khalilzad is caught off guard. "The BBC said the men were Sunnis," he says. But al-Hakim angrily insists the victims were Shi'ites, pilgrims returning from a tour of the holy city of Najaf. (Five days after the massacre, the bodies had not yet been identified.) When Khalilzad and al-Hakim leave the room...
With so much riding on his words and actions, Khalilzad knows no conversations with Iraqis can be entirely casual. But there are some moments when he can let his diplomatic guard down. Earlier in the day, he visits the palatial home of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd and a longtime U.S. ally. Here, Khalilzad is among friends. Talabani calls him Zal, and offers flattering compliments instead of angry complaints. They make jokes in Farsi and enjoy a Kurdish meal that includes several kinds of breads, pomegranate-infused rice and heaping plates of lamb. The ambassador blushes when the President...
...about 2:00 a.m. yesterday, according to a Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) advisory sent to students yesterday. The male driver of the car allegedly pulled over his Honda Accord, displayed a gun, and attempted to get the victim into his car but fled when a security guard at the Kennedy School of Government arrived, according to the advisory. Police determined that the gun was fake after the assailant dropped it, Cambridge Police Department (CPD) spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello said. CPD, HUPD, and the Massachusetts State Police Department were unable to find the offender after searching the area...
...announcement caught the prefect board off guard, though exactly how is beyond me. The Standing Committee on Advising and Counselling proposed a peer advising program to “replace and augment” existing programs such as the Prefect Program in its January 2006 report. And according to Rinere, the prefects had been involved in a lengthy dialogue with the College about changes to the program well before this week’s announcement. Nonetheless, in an e-mail sent early Tuesday morning that rapidly spread across the Harvard community, the program’s board informed prefects that...
Sullivan extended an offer to JV point guard Teddy Bressman ’06 this past offseason, as Harvard desperately looked to fill its most glaring hole, and he has seen a handful of JV players make a significant contribution to the varsity team during his tenure—most recently Brian Sigafoos ’03, who started games for the Crimson as a sophomore and a senior...