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Nguyen said he will emphasize "leadership, teamwork and greater delegation," in an attempt to further heal the publication. He plans to hold race, gender and sexual orientation sensitivity workshops, and to appoint an ombudsperson to mediate internal conflicts...
Last year, the new president had the final choice of whom to appoint to the other offices from among a group of people that secured the most votes in the open election...
...some ways, the Baird nomination was troubled from the start. The first indications from Bill and Hillary Clinton were that they wanted to appoint Vernon Jordan to the Attorney General's post. A flurry of press articles questioning Jordan's ties to a tobacco company, capped by a searing editorial in the New York Times, persuaded Jordan to remove his name from consideration. Aides then leaked word that Clinton sought a female appointee -- a move that in effect devalued the post to affirmative-action status...
Celebrity has its muscle in America, but politics has the power. Eddie Murphy can't drop a bomb, he can only make one. Steven Spielberg can beam E.T. home, but he can't run NASA. Superagent Mike Ovitz can't appoint a Supreme Court Justice (at least, we don't think he can). So the artists, most of them liberal Democrats, came to celebrate the politics of inclusion: after 12 years, or maybe 30, they were back on a party line to Washington clout...
What President-elect Clinton must do is to appoint Morgenthau as the nation's next drug czar--with only this one responsibility, but with broad authority: follow the bucks. Don't bother him with interdiction...