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Of course, the two worlds can meet. Afghan Shah Muhammad Rais claimed that his betrayal as a domestic tyrant in the global best-seller The Bookseller of Kabul, by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad, exposed him to dishonor. So Rais did a very Western thing, launching a lawsuit against Seierstad for...
Of course, the two worlds can meet. Afghan Shah Muhammad Rais claimed that his portrayal as a domestic tyrant in the global best seller The Bookseller of Kabul by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad exposed him to dishonor. So he did a very Western thing, suing Seierstad for defamation in Norway...
By reversing course, the Army stanched the p.r. damage, but some harm had already been done. On hearing the news that Cardona was in Kuwait awaiting transfer to Iraq, Maryam al-Rais, a member of the Iraqi parliament, lamented, "This is just the latest in a long list of insults...
It wasn't until midday that the news began to circulate in the Green Zone, the Baghdad enclave that includes many key government offices, including that of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. There, it was greeted with incredulity-and warnings of a backlash. "The reaction in the street will be...
...same institution, it’s not surprising that he’s being recruited to try something new.” During his time at Harvard, Nichols presided over the two largest fundraising campaigns in the history of legal education. The first, conducted from 1991 to 1995, raised $183 million, surpassing the school’s $150 million goal. The second was kicked off in June 2003 and is still ongoing. It has raised about $275 million toward a goal of $400 million, and is scheduled to end in June 2008. Nichols said that his principal accomplishments during...