April 8, 2005
Milestones
MHC
Goes to Washington Alison Noyes ’05 is a Presidential Fellow
for 2004–2005 at the Center for the Study of the Presidency
in Washington, D.C. The fellows program invites students from prestigious
colleges and universities to come to Washington for two conferences,
during which they meet with members of the executive branch, attend
panel discussions on domestic and foreign policy questions, and meet
with other fellows to talk about current events. Caitlin Morray ’04,
a Presidential Fellow in 2003–2004, wrote a paper titled “The
Prince and the President: A Machiavellian Analysis of the 9/11 Speeches
of George W. Bush” that was chosen for publication in Papers
of the 2003–2004 Center Fellows.
Courage
Award Shamshad Sheikh, Muslim student adviser and chaplain to
the College, received the Courage Award from the Global Village
Foundation at its annual Bridge of Peace Awards ceremony in Los
Angeles March 12. Sheikh was honored for her trip to a refugee
camp on the
Afghani-Pakistani border in 2001. “Undeterred by the many
warnings of the dangers she faced, Sister Shamshad Sheik traveled
to Kacha
Garhi refugee camp using her own funds and bringing her life
savings, along with donations from other Muslims, to help women
there,” according
to the award citation.
The March of Folly Prolific faculty author Constantine
Pleshakov, visiting assistant professor of Russian and Eurasian
studies,
has a new book due out in May. Stalin’s Folly: The Tragic
First Ten Days of World War II on the Eastern Front details the extent
of Joseph Stalin's mishandling of one of the key battles of World
War II. According to the Houghton Mifflin Web site: “On June
22, 1941, Hitler launched a massive three-pronged attack on the Soviet
Union, and in days his troops were within reach of Moscow. The attack
was stunning, but Stalin’s response was even more astonishing.
During the invasion, the mighty Soviet military stood in place while
its soldiers were slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands. Drawing
on a wealth of newly available documents, from classified Politburo
papers and diaries of key generals to diplomatic cables and secret
police memos, the Russian historian Constantine Pleshakov paints
a startling portrait of Stalin, one of history’s most feared
despots, as a vulnerable and paralyzed leader.”
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