Zelikow's area of academic expertise is the history and practice of public policy.

* Zelikow's blog at Foreign Policy

Zelikow's prior involvement with the administration of George W. Bush led to opposition from the 9 / 11 Family Steering Committee, citing the obvious conflict of interest of having previously worked on the Bush transition team, which recommended candidates for Cabinet positions and other top national security appointments.

" Joe Conason wrote that the widows " fear that even with the best of intentions, Zelikow's connections to the Bush White House will ' taint the validity ' of the commission's final report.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

They were stressed in the speeches of Si Mubarak Bekkai when the first Council of Ministers was formed and again when the Istiqlal took a leading role in the second Council.

Aside from the genetic material of the cell, nucleic acids often play a role as second messengers, as well as forming the base molecule for adenosine triphosphate, the primary energy-carrier molecule found in all living organisms.

In 1969, Bixby starred in his second high-profile television role, as Tom Corbett in The Courtship of Eddie's Father a comedy-drama on ABC.

In 2010, he returned to Psych, reprising his role in the second half of the fifth season.

The second season episode, " Steel ," includes a scene at Universal Studios where Face is seen looking bemused as a Cylon walks by him-an in-joke to his previous role in Battlestar Galactica.

Later, the Neoplatonist Iamblichus changed the role of the " One ", effectively altering the role of the Demiurge as second cause or dyad, which was one of the reasons that Iamblichus and his teacher Porphyry came into conflict.

Blyton's second marriage was very happy and, as far as her public image was concerned, she moved smoothly into her role as a devoted doctor's wife, living with him and her two daughters at Green Hedges.

This process was a recognition of the presence of one god " in " another when the second god took on a role belonging to the first.

In the history of Japan, Kōgyoku / Saimei was the second of eight women to take on the role of empress regnant.

His daughter Sofia also appeared in all three ( the first two movies uncredited ): as the infant being baptized at the end of the first movie, as a young child on board ship in the second, and in a supporting role as Michael Corleone's daughter Mary in the third.

The classic sailing frigate, well-known today for its role in the Napoleonic wars, can be traced back to French developments in the second quarter of the 18th century.

The Tsar regained his authority after the crisis of 1905, reclaimed his role as the Grand Duke of Finland and, during the second period of Russification between 1908 and 1917, neutralized the functions and powers of the new parliament.

Under new management it was revitalized and saw a partial return to its original domestic role with the reintroduction of several domestic scheduled routes, because of the addition of two Shorts Skyvan SC7 aircraft, and a second Twin Otter DHC-6 aircraft.

He had a recurring dramatic role in the second season of Sons of Anarchy and has also had roles in several films.

The second, ' Nemesis ', gives details of Hitler's role in the Second World War, and concludes with his fall and suicide in 1945.

Many of the signatories would play a prominent role in Israeli politics following independence ; Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir both served as Prime Minister, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi became the country's second president in 1952, and several others served as ministers.

" " As we reach the second half of the sixth century, we find that images are attracting direct veneration and some of them are credited with the performance of miracles " Cyril Mango writes, " In the post-Justinianic period the icon assumes an ever increasing role in popular devotion, and there is a proliferation of miracle stories connected with icons, some of them rather shocking to our eyes ".

Cotten had his first starring role in Welles's second production for the Federal Theatre Project — the farce Horse Eats Hat, adapted by Welles and Edwin Denby from Eugène Labiche's play, Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie.

This is reflected, among others, in the club's contribution to the national team, uninterrupted since the second half of 1920s and recognised as one of the most influential in international football, having performed a decisive role in the World Cup triumphs ​​ of 1934, 1982 and 2006.

Jane Fonda won her second Best Actress award for her role, and Voight won for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

There also is strong a break following line 36 in the poem that provides for a second stanza, and there is a transition in narration from a third person narration about Kubla Khan into the poet discussing his role as a poet.

In the army he holds the rank of second lieutenant, with the role of a ballistic calculation officer.

* Lindisfarne plays a key role in " Conqueror ", the second book of the Time's Tapestry series by Stephen Baxter.

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt ’ s “ natural role ” among Arab countries.

As the role of American forces in Iraq changed from fighting the Iraqi Army to suppressing the guerrilla insurgency, more armor kits were being manufactured, though perhaps not as fast as production facilities were capable of bringing them online.

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt ’ s “ natural role ” among Arab countries.

On 25 August 2004, Plaid Cymru MP Adam Price announced his intention to move for the impeachment of Tony Blair for his role in involving Britain in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

* 2006 – Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi ' as in 1982.

In 1990-91, Saudi Arabia, fearing attack from Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait, played an important role supporting military action by the US and its allies.

A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba ' ath Party and its regional organisation Ba ' ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba ' athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.

Since 1983, Iraq has repeatedly called for restoration of Egypt's " natural role " among Arab countries.

In foreign affairs, Saddam sought to have Iraq play a leading role in the Middle East.

" The report criticizes the BBC's role in the death of David Kelly, a weapons expert on Iraq.

He has disapproved of America's wars in Korea ( 1950 – 1953 ), Vietnam ( 1964 – 1973 ), Afghanistan ( 2001 – present ), and Iraq ( 2003 – 2011 ), believing that the United States should not be overly militaristic or play the role of global policeman.

Another reason was that the British government had yet to find a role for Abdullah Ibn-Hussain, after his brother Faisal Ibn-Hussain had lost his control in Syria and given the role of the king of Iraq.

The Beni-abbad had not previously played a major role in history, though they were of noble pedigree, hailing from Bani Lakhm, the historical kings of Al-Hira in south-central Iraq.

Bildt has also been questioned for his role as a member of the International Advisory Council of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a group with ties to the Bush administration pushing for an invasion of Iraq in 2003.

With Saffron, Poindexter played a role in Iraq, building a tool to run entity analysis on insurgent networks in the struggle against IEDs.

With the fall of Saddam, the INA entered Iraq playing a central role in the occupation government.

With the rift between the United States and the Iraqi National Congress, the INA's role was further enhanced and Allawi was declared Prime Minister of Iraq on 28 May 2004.

The NSC played an effective role during such major developments as the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unification of Germany, and the deployment of American troops in Iraq and Panama.

" Some analysts have argued that the implementation of the Carter Doctrine and the Reagan Corollary also played a role in the outbreak of the 2003 Iraq War.

In 2006 Farrell appeared with Jello Biafra and Keith Gordon in the documentary Whose War ?, examining the U. S. role in the Iraq War.

Hajjaj's success led Abd al-Malik to assign him the role of governor of Iraq and give him free rein in the territories he controlled.

She also made comments critical of the war in Iraq and the role played in it by Ireland's Shannon Airport.