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...covert CIA officer who is the wife of Joseph Wilson, a retired U.S. diplomat and an early postwar critic of the President's prewar justification for the Iraq invasion. Wilson figures in the story because he made a secret trip to Niger in 2002 at the CIA's request to determine if that country had sold a uranium ore known as yellowcake to Iraq, a key piece of evidence for the Administration's claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Wilson informed the CIA upon his return that he had found no evidence of an Iraqi purchase...
...what would be his only rebuttal of the meeting, Summers said he would “consider very seriously” the request to release a transcript of his comments, but said that he currently does not intend...
Waters said at the meeting that many professors are “held hostage to fear” and are afraid to voice their discontent for fear of retribution, citing professors who e-mail her expressing disapproval of University policy, but request that she destroy the e-mails after reading them...
Summers said that he would “consider very seriously” the request to release a transcript of his comments, but said that he currently does not intend...
...Higgins Professor of Natural Science Barbara J. Grosz, chair of the newly-formed Task Force on Women in Science, said in an interview last night that “there are no limits on what we can propose.” While Harvard currently allows junior faculty to request that their tenure clock be stopped, Grosz said her task force would consider a policy under which the tenure clock would automatically stop for junior faculty with young children unless the professor asked that it keep ticking...