Wednesday, January 5, 2005 SF Lecture, "What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building"

Wednesday, January 5

What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation
Building

Noah Feldman, Associate Professor of Law, New York
University; former Senior Constitutional Adviser,
Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraq

America is up to its neck in nation building, but the
public debate, focused on getting the troops home,
devotes little attention to why we are building a new
Iraqi nation, what success would look like, or what
principles should guide us. Noah Feldman argues that
to prevent nation building from turning into a
paternalistic, colonialist charade, we urgently need a
new, humbler approach. Nation builders should focus on
providing security, without arrogantly claiming any
special expertise in how successful nation-states
should be made. Drawing on his personal experiences in
Iraq as a constitutional adviser, Feldman offers
enduring insights into the power dynamics between the
American occupiers and the Iraqis, and tackles issues
such as Iraqi elections, the prospect of successful
democratization, and the way home.

Noah Feldman (AB '92) is Associate Professor of Law at
New York University and, in 2003, was Senior
Constitutional Adviser to the Coalition Provisional
Authority in Iraq. He is the author of After Jihad:
America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy.

Check In: 5:30 PM, Program: 6:00 PM
At the World Affairs Council: 312 Sutter Street, 2nd
Floor Conference Room, San Francisco

Harvard Club Members: $7, Nonmembers: $15
To reserve seats call: (415) 293-4600, e-mail
registration@wacsf.org, or visit:
www.itsyourworld.org.

Class of 1986 January-February 2005 Notes

http://www.hmag.harvard.edu/classnotes/home.html

Secretary: Robert Payne Fox Jr., Nutter McClennen &
Fish LLP, World Trade Center West, 155 Seaport Blvd.,
Boston 02210; rfox@nutter.com ; Class website:
http://classes.harvard.edu/college/1986 .

Aaron Fox has written his first book, Real Country:
Music and Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke)
"I'm an associate professor of music at Columbia, with
a wife, Susan Lepselter, and daughter, Serena (4), the
works. I'm no longer making much music, but writing
about it fills the void." See www.aaronfox.com .

Former assistant U.S. attorney Paul Luehr has become
vice president in the Minneapolis office of Stroz
Friedberg LLC, a leading technical-services and
consulting company specializing in computer forensics,
computer investigations, private investigations, and
electronic discovery. Previously he spent three and a
half years as a federal prosecutor with the U.S.
attorney's office in Minnesota, where he worked on a
variety of computer-crime cases and lectured on
Internet investigations, both in the United States and
abroad. Previously, he was assistant director at the
Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., and
oversaw the agency's Internet fraud program.

Born: to Andy Opel and Ansje Burdick, a daughter,
Winni Frances, on July 5 in Gilford, N.H. "We live in
Tallahassee, Fla., where I am an assistant professor
teaching documentary video production and critical
media studies at Florida State. We decided to take the
summer off, avoid the Florida heat, and have the baby
at the house of Jane Opel '50, HRP '51, on Lake
Winnipesaukee in N.H. Winni's name is a tribute to our
five generations on the lake. Our southern friends
accused us of wanting a Yankee baby and they might be
right! My latest book is Micro Radio and the FCC:
Media Activism and the Struggle over Broadcast Policy
(Praeger), which describes the emerging media activism
and reform movement. I also edited a collection of
essays, Representing Resistance: Media, Civil
Disobedience, and the Global Justice Movement
(Praeger). Ansje will continue to work part time as a
project manager for a software company in Tallahassee.
We'd love to hear from classmates, and if you find
yourself on the forgetten coast of Florida, please
look us up."

Jill Vialet, founder of Sports4Kids, a nonprofit
organization in Oakland providing full-time
youth-sports programming at 64 public elementary and
middle schools in the Bay Area, has won a fellowship
from Ashoka: Innovators for the Public. In addition to
a three-year stipend, fellows receive training and
technical assistance, and can apply for supplemental
funding for collaborative projects. Previously Vialet
was a found er and executive director at Oakland's
Museum of Children's Art.

Yahoo Hiring Director of Product Marketing

DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MARKETING

Yahoo! is currently looking for an accomplished
product marketing executive with exceptional
professional presence, communication skills, and
native intelligence. This position will be extremely
visible within the company and the industry and will
require someone with experience handling and managing
relationships within their own organization as well as
with other organizations in a start-up and rapid
growth environment.

Responsibilities:
* Lead team of product marketing managers focused on
delivering optimal customer solutions
* Creation of a company product strategy roadmap
* Competitive analysis
* Creatively identify new possibilities for revenues
and partnerships, as well as participate in the
execution of the business plan
* Manage P&L for solution segments
* Direct Product launch strategy and marketing support
* Engage in "buy vs. build" assessments of strategic
initiatives

Qualifications:
* Should have a track record of building products and
revenues on a large scale
* Experience and comfort in leading teams in high
visibility and undefined market
* Experience launching products which have lead to
significant market success
* Solid experience with increasing levels of
responsibility, ideally coming from an web/internet,
or software industry background
* Created and implemented successful product strategy
roadmaps
* Defined organizational requirements including
demonstrated ability to successfully to manage a
high-energy team by defining goals, establishing
accountability, and executing to plan
* Analytical/problem solving with strong attention to
detail
* Experience managing a product line P&L
* Strategic, creative, innovative thinker
* Exceptional interpersonal and communications (oral
and written) - professional, clear, concise, and
direct
* MBA desirable

Qualified candidates should submit their resumes to
asoohoo@yahoo-inc.com .

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

HCSF Membership Fees

Jan. 1st, 2005, William Fitzpatrick raised the
question on the harvard-sf discussion list: "How about
some sense of potential membership dues [HCSF]?"

Here's a URL to our current fees and the application:
http://www.harvardclub-norcal.org/hcsf/MemApp2004-2005.pdf

Crimson Member -- $250 or more
Supporting Member -- $150
Regular Member -- $50
Recent Graduates -- $10 (first year only)

The above will give Harvard Club of San Francisco
members "limited" access to the physical club. When
the deal is final we'll be able to articulate a "full"
access to the entire facility (additional) line item
and associated pricing structure. That announcement
will have to wait until after our next Board meeting
and everything is ratified and approved. If you
haven't done so already, sign up and join the Club.
We could use your help and opinions and energy.
Regards.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu

What Should The Harvard Club of SF Do?

We have some non-paltry announcements for HCSF in the
next months. There are plans [in the final stages]
for a physical location, returning to the original
"Club House" on Powell Street, Nob Hill. Big deal,
great facility, food, bar, rooms to stay in, notable
views; cheap discounted by your graduation year
prices, only indoor squash courts around, workout
equipment, sauna, lockers. Second we are going to
have a cogent web site deployed soon.

Many activities are being considered for 2005. That
said we don't want to operate in a vacuum of only
Board member opinion at a commodious location on Nob
Hill. We are a non-profit charitable 501(c)(3)
organization. As such we want to hear from you.

If you have intellections for activities send us an
e-mail, Amy Hanson, ah@post.harvard.edu & Perry Gregg,
bengt@post.harvard.edu . Your opinion can help us add
to, edit and prioritize our list. Regards.

Perry Gregg
VP Communications, Board of Directors
Harvard Club of San Francisco
Nob Hill
800 Powell Street
San Francisco, California 94108

bengt@post.harvard.edu