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Graham said that the school aims to reduce its budget for the next fiscal year by 4 to 8 percent, and will appoint only those visiting and adjunct positions “absolutely necessary to cover gaps in the curriculum...
...Governors often appoint members of political dynasties to Senate vacancies because of their name recognition and fundraising connections. This makes it easier for the newly minted senator to win a full term and puts the weight of an influential family behind the governor’s own reelection efforts. This consideration caused Governor David Paterson to initially favor Caroline Kennedy ’79 for New York’s open seat. Though Kennedy was widely panned for her inexperience and poor performance in press conferences, Paterson stood by the former first daughter, hoping to gain the Kennedy family?...
...most states, the governor is allowed to appoint a new senator who does not belong to the same party as the senator leaving office. But an unexpected vacancy should not be an opportunity for a governor to change the Senate’s balance of power through a partisan political ploy. Though this situation has not arisen in recent years, it nearly occurred in 2006, when Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) suffered a major stroke. Had Sen. Johnson died, Mike Rounds, the Republican governor of South Dakota, would have appointed a Republican to the vacant seat, thereby delivering...
...third intended recipient of the North's recent bellicosity, analysts believe, is the most important: the new Obama Administration in Washington. Pyongyang has watched President Obama come in and quickly appoint special envoys to three critical trouble spots: the Middle East, Iran and Pakistan-Afghanistan-India. They further heard new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton give measured testimony about the North during her confirmation hearings. She reiterated that "sincere dialogue" with the North can come only after the nuclear issue has once and for all been put to bed - that is to say, when the North verifiably demonstrates that...
...true, I think it’s a fantastic appointment,” Pepper D. Culpepper, an associate professor at the Kennedy School, said of his colleague. “For the Obama administration to appoint someone of his caliber underscores the importance of U.S. strategic plans and vision...