...out of the State Department and history books. I interviewed somebody that fought in the Libyan Civil War as well, to get some of that background. TT: This was somebody from Libya? JM: No, no, he was an American, actually, a Georgetown graduate. [Laughs] Matthew Van Dyke is his name—he’s a wild guy. So the answer to the question is that we used primary and secondary source materials. TT: I’d like to go into the aspects of the book that deal with...
photo from Wikimedia Commons On September 6, 2011, Tom Nielsen, a retired 71-year-old plumber, interrupted Paul Ryan’s “pay per view town hall” at the Greenfield, WI, Rotary Club. Nielsen, enraged by Ryan’s crusade against entitlements, yelled out, “I’ve paid into that for 50 years, for my unemployment, and my social security, and my Medicare! And now you’re gonna-”. The old man was not allowed to finish. Three security guards pummeled the reti...
...lly not those who had a claimed territory prior to the 1959 Treaty. This politically prudent policy serves the United States’ need to — as Christopher Joyner, Director of the Institute for Law, Science, and Global Security at Georgetown University, puts it — “preclude the continent from becoming a region of international competition and conflict [in order to] preserve the ‘agree to disagree’ legal status of the claims to Antarctica.”...
...een energy technologies the likes of which have not developed on Chinese soil. And, there is already a market in China for such products. Quoted in The New York Times on September 10th, 2010, technology expert Joanna Lewis of Georgetown University noted that there are many high-tech areas where U.S. corporations have a comparative advantage over China’s. American corporations are sometimes deterred from exporting their products by the poorly arti...
...film is no more effective than the cheesy marketing ploy that describes it. The film opens with footage of a Kabul taxi driving through desert and it closes with footage of an old-fashioned taxi driving on the calm, tranquil Georgetown streets of D.C.; other than that, the taxi ride goes nowhere. However, Dilawar was chosen not only because he was the second detainee to die in U.S. custody after the start of the “War on Terror,” but also because...
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