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 'DR. MOHAMMED': An Envelope of Bullets
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 Words From the Front
Dexter Filkins—a New York Times Iraq correspondent and a fellow at the Carr Center—reporting here from Afghanistan, worries that reporters lose perspective when embedded.
Discipline, The ROTC Way
By CHRISTIAN B. FLOW
It starts like this: six students sitting around an oval table, eyes on the projector screen, faces barely visible in the sodden light of an early March morning. Their dress is standard-issue—black wind pants, olive green windbreakers, and gray T-shirts. They are attentive. They are quiet. They are getting a lesson in warfare from the Spartan King Leonidas.
Will ROTC Return?
By CHRISTIAN B. FLOW, ATHENA Y. JIANG, and RACHEL A. STARK
The question for Harvard is whether the University does enough to support its would-be officers in an endeavor that, if seen through to the end, poses stakes higher than any classroom ever would.
Building a Nation
Then and Now
Teaching for American in Iraq
'Watercolor Memories'
 Crimson Sits Down with Harvard Anti-War Coalition
Web Site Connects Soldiers with U.S. Civilians To Aid Iraqis
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About Face: Experts Rethink the Iraq War
By LOIS E. BECKETT
Monday, March 17, 2008
In Lawrence H. Summers’ Elmwood living room, a hand-picked group of Harvard foreign policy experts balanced their dinner plates on their laps. Weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Summers, then University president, had brought the professors together to discuss the coming war. Summers held court from a couch and directed the conversation.
Ignatieff’s ‘Getting Iraq Wrong’ Gets Harvard Wrong, Ex-Colleagues Say
By LOIS E. BECKETT
Monday, March 17, 2008
Bombs were already falling over Baghdad as Michael G. Ignatieff and Kanan Makiya sat having drinks in a Cambridge restaurant. It was March 19, 2003. The ultimatum President George W. Bush had given Saddam Hussein—leave Iraq or we invade—had just expired. The mood of the two friends was somber.
‘A War Over Memory’: Reconstructing a Nation’s Identity
By LOIS E. BECKETT
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
When Kanan Makiya entered the basement of the Ba’ath Party Regional Command Headquarters in April 2003, he found papers strewn all over the floor. American soldiers had been there first, looking for weapons. They had pulled down shelves and left the regime’s official records scattered in random piles. Only weeks after the fall of Baghdad, Makiya, an Iraqi expatriate and Harvard researcher, had returned to his hometown to continue a process he began 30 years before—gathering the memory of his country.
Monday, March 19, 2008
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