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...memoir, "especially when giving up money is involved." Attempting to change the Pentagon has defeated nearly every one of Gates' predecessors. If he prevails, he will have done more to transform the Pentagon than anything his immediate predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld, a self-proclaimed king of transformation, was able to accomplish. "I have no intention," Gates said late last year, "of being a caretaker Secretary...
...killing them--won't be easy. Gates is waging this war on two fronts. First, he knows he has to change a Defense Department culture that favors "99% exquisite solutions over a five- or six- or 10-year period" to a "75% solution in weeks or months." To help accomplish that, he is salting the military's senior ranks with officers who agree with him. He tapped General David Petraeus, whose counterinsurgency skills helped stabilize Iraq, to head an Army board asked to sift through colonels to identify those who merit promotion to one-star general. "An institution can always...
...city’s history. “I think the city desperately needs change, and not the kind of change around the edges but a kind of fundamental systemic change,” Yoon said in a December interview. “There is only one way to accomplish that: by changing leadership.” Menino, who was first elected mayor in 1993, has served four terms thus far. His biggest potential challenge in the upcoming race will likely be city councilor and former city council president Michael F. Flaherty, who officially announced his intention...
...result, the political figures that had defeated Communism were not able to bring Poland into the greater fold of the European community. Instead, it took a new generation of political leadership to accomplish the unthinkable: turning a mismanaged and unproductive command economy into a functioning and streamlined market system. Yet all this hard work paid off in the end; on May 1, 2004, Poland and seven other formerly Communist countries in Central Europe joined the European Union...
...Visual and Environmental StudiesRR: What is your middle initial?DB: I don’t really use it.RR: Sure, but it’s The Crimson’s style to attribute people using their middle initials.DB: No.RR: Okay. So what were you trying to get your students to accomplish in this class?DB: Well, it’s technically a beginning class, so I’m trying to get students to use an alternate language to engage with painting. It’s non-observational, so you’re dealing with imagined structures.RR: And everyone...