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CBS News
April 4, 2018
Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, we asked prominent voices to share their memories and reflect on the progress toward achieving King's dream of justice and equality for all Americans. Those voices include Gen. Colin Powell, the first black secretary of state;Ãâà...
The Asian Age
March 30, 2018
He was to have taken over from John Negroponte who, more than secretary of state Colin Powell, was the key hawk in the run-up to the occupation of Iraq in April 2003. For greater continuity in the theme partly scripted by him, he took over as ambassador to Baghdad. A key player in his team was RobertÃâà...
Amsterdam News
March 30, 2018
Boudreau is well-known for his effort in establishing CCNY's Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. He helped find funding for the ... The chancellor of CCNY, James B. Milliken, and representatives from the Colin L. Powell school will also be in attendance. The event will take place at the CityÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 29, 2018
On Thursday, March 22nd, Elementary School District 159 held its 4th annual Essence of Fatherhood Awards Dinner at Colin Powell Middle School. The dinner was an initiative of the school district's Family and Community Engagement program (FACE). Students throughout the school district participated inÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 29, 2018
Many national security advisors, including Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter, Colin Powell, James Jones, Michael Flynn, and H.R. McMaster, have come from the professional military. Even many of those who made their careers in academia, law, or government, like McGeorge Bundy, Henry Kissinger,Ãâà...
The City College of New York News
March 29, 2018
General Colin L. Powell USA (ret.), a distinguished member of CCNY's Class of 1958, joined in hailing Boudreau. “Vince Boudreau brought to the Colin Powell School a passion and a dedication to infuse our students not only with a degree but also a commitment to serve others and to be leaders,” notedÃâà...
The Real News Network
March 27, 2018
Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy Lawrence Wilkerson's last positions in government were as Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff (2002-05), Associate Director of the State Department's Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass,Ãâà...
New York Magazine
March 27, 2018
And, as Gell points out, most of the people who actually spearheaded the disastrous invasion — Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, President Bush himself — have been rehabilitated in the public eye, or at least handed sinecures at prestigious think tanks, as Bremer twists in the wind. But it's still jarring toÃâà...
KTVQ Billings News
March 26, 2018
1997 - The Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies (which has since merged with the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership) is established at the City College of New York. July 30, 2000 - Gives the keynote address at the Republican National Convention in support of George W. Bush. JanuaryÃâà...
WTHITV.com
March 25, 2018
Colin Powell Fast Facts. Here's a look at the life of Colin Po... Posted: Mar. 25, 2018 7:55 PM. Updated: Mar. 26, 2018 12:35 PM. Here's a look at the life of Colin Powell, former Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Scroll for more content... Personal: Birth date: April 5, 1937. Birth place: Harlem, NewÃâà...
Consortium News
March 17, 2018
In 1963, Capt. Colin Powell was one of those advisers, serving a first tour with a South Vietnamese army unit. Powell's detachment sought to discourage support for the Viet Cong by torching villages throughout the A Shau Valley. While other U.S. advisers protested this countrywide strategy as brutal andÃâà...
CNN
March 17, 2018
Rob Crilly is a British journalist living in New York. He was The Telegraph's Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent and was previously the East Africa correspondent for The Times of London. The opinions in this article are those of the author. (CNN) If this is the end of the world, then one question is reallyÃâà...
Buffalo News
March 17, 2018
Motivational speaker Bob Kittell figures he's talked to more than 5 million people around the world during his 30-year career, including more than 12,000 at then-First Niagara Center a few years back as part of a national Get Motivated Tour that included Colin Powell, Rudy Guilliani and Terry Bradshaw.
The Herald Journal
March 17, 2018
This month, for several reasons, I'd like to think the book is: “My American Journey” by Colin Powell. A man raised in Harlem by Jamaican immigrants. A man who just so happened to become a four star Army general, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, national security advisor and the 65th and firstÃâà...
New York Times
March 15, 2018
For once, let's give Donald Trump his due. In throwing Rex Tillerson out on his ear, he has treated his secretary of state exactly the way the secretary treated those under him. Poetic justice has been served. And, in the nomination of C.I.A. Director Mike Pompeo to succeed Tillerson, so will the interests ofÃâà...
The Island Now
March 15, 2018
Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff for Secretary of State Colin Powell, discussed what he viewed as ideal foreign policy with Temple Emanuel congregants in Great Neck on Friday night, cautioning against repeating the mistakes of the Bush administration. Wilkerson also said that the UnitedÃâà...
Business Insider Nordic
March 14, 2018
In fact, he was the only four-star general of an all-white army before Colin Powell. Born in modern day Haiti, Dumas moved to France when he was a teenager with his father and later enrolled in the army as a private a few years before the revolution broke out. "Dumas may not have been a brilliant strategistÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 9, 2018
A select group of seventh-graders at Colin Powell Middle School in Matteson learn about the green energy systems powering the heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and ... A look behind the scenes at how their school building works was an eye opener for a group of Colin Powell Middle School students.
Orlando Sentinel
March 7, 2018
Some alumni at a private Catholic school in Miami are complaining about a class photo that includes a fourth-grader who painted his face black to portray former Secretary of State Colin Powell during a Black History Month celebration. The Miami Herald reports that St. Thomas the Apostle shared the photoÃâà...
PJ Media
February 21, 2018
WASHINGTON – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said too many young people do not qualify for military service due in part to obesity and criminal records, which is reflective of many “scary” problems in local communities that must be addressed. Powell, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffÃâà...
Amsterdam News
February 1, 2018
Colin Powell has worn many hats, among them: Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and National Security Advisor. He was the first African-American to hold each of those positions. When he joined the Army in the 1950's, though, his only ambition was to be a good soldier. It was beyondÃâà...
Politico (blog)
January 9, 2018
A federal judge has rejected the federal government's bid to toss out a lawsuit demanding official action to recover emails former Secretary of State Colin Powell sent during his four years as America's top diplomat more than a decade ago. In a ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFaddenÃâà...
OCRegister
December 31, 1999
The once honorable Colin Powell was trotted out before the U.N. to lay out the rationale for war in Iraq using false intelligence information about Iraq's nonexistent WMD program and the nonexistent “sinister nexus between Iraq and the Al Qaida terrorist network.” It was a speech Powell later admitted was aÃâà...
TGCOM
December 31, 1999
All'alba del 20 marzo 2003 con l'invasione dell'Iraq da parte di una coalizione multinazionale guidata dagli Stati Uniti scoppiava la Seconda Guerra del Golfo. Nel mirino dell'operazione militare "Iraqi Freedom" il dittatore iracheno Saddam Hussein, accusato dagli Usa di possedere armi di distruzione diÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
December 31, 1999
How many other presenters could recruit John Lewis, the US Representative for Georgia who marched alongside King, the former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and supermodel Naomi Campbell? Martin Luther King is remembered for his words, and four words in particular, but McDonald, fittingly for aÃâà...
The Spokesman-Review
December 31, 1999
Katherine Boo, the author of a bestselling book about poverty titled “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” will deliver a speech April 24, and Colin Powell, the retired Army general who served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush, is scheduled to speak Oct. 12. Their appearances at the SpokaneÃâà...
KXLY Spokane
December 31, 1999
SPOKANE, Wash. - Whitworth University announced Tuesday that retired U.S. Army General and former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell will be the featured speaker at Whitworth University's fall President's Leadership Forum. The forum will be held on Friday, October 12, from noon to 1:30 p.m. at theÃâà...
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