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The White House website reports:
President Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals today:
Erin C. Conaton, Nominee for Under Secretary of the Air Force, Department of Defense
Erin C. Conaton is currently the staff director for the House of Representatives’ Committee on Armed Services (HASC).  In that capacity, she serves as the primary advisor to Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) and …

Foreign Policy’s The Cable is reporting this afternoon:
Senate Foreign Relations chairman John Kerry promised swift proceedings for Rajiv Shah, President Obama’s impending nominee for administration of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
In an interview with The Cable, Kerry said he has been notified that the White House has chosen Shah, the USDA Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief …

Two previous posts have discussed the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Over at Running Chicken my friend Professor Ari Kohen has an excellent post on the fall of the Wall entitled Der Mauerfall. Kohen writes:
There has been – and there will be yet – a great deal written about the twentieth anniversary of the fall of …

A previous post discussed German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s address to a Joint Session of Congress and the commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Over the next several days, there will be many celebrations in Germany and elsewhere in the West recognizing the demise of the Wall and the beginning of the end of the Cold War.
In these celebrations, …

Thanks to Twitter, I just came across this letter:

Greetings,
Over the past two years, in collaboration with others at the University of Alberta, I’ve been working with Liberian musicians living in Buduburam, a refugee camp near the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to produce a benefit CD representing music of camp residents.
The Buduburam camp was established in 1990 (with support from the UN …

On Tuesday of this week, I had the honor of attending the Joint Session of Congress to hear the address by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The occasion of her address is, of course, the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 2009.
As a student at Georgetown, I spent my junior year– 1978-1979– studying at the …

The New York Times is reporting:

An international body charged with stopping the illicit trade in diamonds that fuel conflict has decided not to suspend Zimbabwe, officials said Friday, though its investigators had concluded that Zimbabwe’s military had organized smuggling syndicates with the government’s permission and used “extreme violence” against illegal miners.
Instead, the countries that are part of the body, the …