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In her Iraq War memoir ‘The
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Politics” class at Yale was the first subject of a string of campus protests called “Do You Trust Your Educator?” by Zulfiqar Mannan and 4 other Yale students as part of “Paradise Sought” a larger capstone project inspired by ‘gaga-feminism’ and David Scott Kastan’s 2005
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Odierno’s political advisor, or “Polad”. For Ambassador Hill’s perspective on Sky see pages 351-353 of Hill’s own (more diplomatic) memoir ‘Outpost: A Diplomat At Work: A Memoir by Christopher A. Hill’(2014).
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international leadership development program. Sky oversaw the transition of the program to the
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In a Time of Monsters: Travelling in a Middle East in Revolt
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The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
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In a Time of Monsters: Travelling in a Middle East in Revolt
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The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq
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