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...almost unique” combination of “analytic capabilities,” “strategic insight,” and “political savvy.” Zoellick also touched on the significance of President George W. Bush’s visit this week to India, a country which Zoellick said is playing an increasingly important role in world affairs. Aniruddha Patil, a Kennedy School student, said that “the main reason I came here was to see what facts impact foreign policy towards China, India, and Russia, and the session dealt with those...
President Summers, in conjunction with the president of Amherst and a few others, took major steps to rectify this deeply troubling situation. Since 2004, students from poor and working-class families pay little or nothing to attend Harvard; Harvard admissions officers also visit more high schools in poor communities; Harvard began a small summer program for promising low-income students; and students and graduates engage in broader and more systematic outreach. The percentage of low-income students at Harvard is inching up, without any sacrifice in quality of those admitted, and other wealthy colleges and universities are slowly following...
...Islamabad, which has already been under virtual lockdown for the past week in anticipation of the President's visit, the bombing in Karachi only reinforced the precariousness of the country's security situation. While there has been no formal link as of yet between the bombing and the President's visit, Syed Marwat Ali Shah, the deputy inspector general of the Rawalpindi Police in charge of security admits that President Bush is clearly a target, and every precaution will be undertaken. ?You are taking every possible eventuality into account and making preparations,? he says. ?Then something happens where...
...Meanwhile, President Bush announced in a televised news conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he would not be dissuaded from his upcoming visit. ?Terrorists and killers are not going to prevent me from going to Pakistan,? he said, ?this just shows that the war on terror must continue...
...whether or not A. Q. Khan - whom Pakistan will not allow the U.S. to question - is discussed during President Bush's one-day visit, not even the latest Qaeda bust is likely to deflect attention from the mounting problems facing Washington's shaky alliance with Musharraf. The Bush Administration has backed Musharraf on the basis that he is cooperating in the war on terror - even if not to the extent the U.S. demands - and that the alternatives are worse. But many secular liberals in Pakistan complain that Musharraf brandishes the jihadi threat to maintain military rule and suppress Pakistan...