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...been ideological soul mates. (Bin Laden offered to fight against Saddam when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1991.) Complicating the fight is the fact that the spooks don't want to overlook evidence on Iraq--as they did with al-Qaeda--so they are trying to turn over every stone. For example, a top Iraqi intelligence official visited bin Laden in Sudan in the mid-1990s, an intelligence source tells TIME. There is also more evidence that al-Qaeda operatives who turned up recently in Baghdad may have been plotting chemical-weapons attacks on U.S. soil. "As we peel the onion...
...purported underground warrens, drawn for TIME by an Afghan palace guard, shows a tunnel skirting the stone walls surrounding the palace. Small chambers run off the subterranean passageway. According to palace guards, the refurbishment plans include not just the underground presidential bunker but also a facility for U.S. forces and barracks for the new Afghan national army. Whatever the ultimate uses of the bunker, work on it is proceeding at an urgent clip. "If the U.S. engineers are not patrolling when we're working at night, we can steal a little sleep," says a laborer, Ghulam Sakhi. "But if they...
Robert G. Stone Jr. ‘45, another corporation member who also retired last year, seems to be equally embroiled in this mess. According to Scott Sperling who worked under Stone at Harvard Management Company, Stone was “the driving force” behind the Harken deal and Harvard’s other energy investments. Stone has a variety of ties to the Bushes including a father in law who invested in the elder George Bush’s oil drilling ventures in the 1940s and a brother who was the US envoy to Cyprus during...
...past few months, both Winokur and Stone have been replaced on the Harvard Corporation The other six met in secret and handpicked a new recruit to initiate into their club for each member they had lost—just as they have been doing for more than 350 years. We can hope the new corporation members will be more ethical than those they are replacing, but hope is a slim hook on which to hang the $17 billion that is left in the Harvard endowment. The key question for the Harvard community to consider now is how we can make...
...Corporation members or other administrators who are found, by an independent inquiry, to have acted in a manner that is inconsistent with Harvard’s standard of honesty and integrity in all dealings must be asked to step down, if they have not done so already. This includes Stone, who has remained on the board of directors of the Harvard Management Company even after he stepped down from the Harvard Corporation. No one who has betrayed the trust of the Harvard community can remain in a position of leadership. This will also set an example that will make future...