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...countering the Soviet Union with military strength, although he may be best remembered for his 1982 attempt at conciliation, when he invited his Soviet counterpart to take a walk near Geneva in an effort to break a deadlock over another arms agreement. The ploy failed?it was later the subject of the play A Walk in the Woods?but it began a push toward arms control, and Nitze later helped craft a treaty between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Although a godfather of the neoconservative movement, Nitze had become in recent months a critic of U.S. policy in Iraq...
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...presidential campaign has confirmed that the Vietnam War is still a touchy subject for many Americans. Davey (Abe Riesman ’08) is a bit more touched than most. Guilt-stricken over his country’s role in Vietnam, the blinded veteran decides to bring the truth of the war home to his complacent middle-class parents by teaching them what it’s like to be a Vietnamese peasant: he orders them to pick up grains of minute rice from the floor while his wife fires gunshots randomly into the air (shooting him in process...
...exhibit’s curator, Omar Al-Dewachi, says his interest was first sparked in the subject by the discovery of data sheets filled with physical descriptions of these Marsh Arabs. They drew him to explore Field’s publications, including the Anthropology of Iraq, which provide a context for the collection of Field’s photos donated to the Peabody...
...Professor King makes a good point that, if anything, his study understates compliance [with the 1998 law],” Harvard Democrats President Andy J. Frank ’05 said. “It seems like these associations are trying to change the subject...