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...create a systemic-risk council that can impose emergency measures and unleash extra powers throughout government in case of a future meltdown like the one that almost destroyed the global economy last fall. Dodd differs with the Administration in who should head the council: he wants the President to appoint someone, while the Administration thinks it should be an internal player like the Treasury Secretary...
...latitude to appoint an Assistant Treasurer...
Minow—who said the Law School will likely appoint between two and 8 positions—downplayed the likelihood that tension over faculty appointments will return and said that the methodological battles of the 80s are a thing of the past...
...Twenty-two months later, however, Joffrin might be forgiven for having a quiet chuckle. The Elysée has backed a move to appoint Sarkozy's son Jean to head the administration managing the business district La Défense. Jean is just 23 and a little over a year into his law degree. Appointing him to such a high-profile position smacks of nepotism, cronyism and regal high-handedness, say Sarkozy's critics. "Who for an instant thinks that the nomination of a boy entering his second year of legal studies to the presidency of an institution that manages...
...Human Rights Council chooses to act on the Goldstone report, the easiest choice for Netanyahu would be to follow the advice of his key Western allies and appoint an independent Israeli panel of jurists to re-examine the events of the Gaza war. But Netanyahu and most Israelis - who feel that, yet again, they are being unjustly singled out by the U.N. - are in no mood to let that happen...