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...dealmaking. The ability to create stable alliances, avoid alienating former and future supporters and adjust strategies as circumstances require are essential traits of a strong political leader. Ozawa has all of these skills. In taking over the DPJ, his willingness to retain members of Maehara's executive team and appoint another former party president, Naoto Kan, as acting president are smart moves that preserve leadership continuity and keep the DPJ's younger members energized by letting them occupy top positions...
...going to find enough water? The congressional Hispanic caucus wants $1 billion in spending on roads and bridges and Customs officers; El Paso state senator Eliot Shapleigh and other Texas lawmakers have called for a Marshall Plan for the border; El Paso Congressman Sylvestre Reyes wants Bush to appoint a border czar who can cut through the red tape and make things happen...
...dance, but rather to solicit input on the search for a dean of the Faculty to replace William C. Kirby. At this juncture, we have two primary suggestions for Bok to consider in the dean search. First, the next dean of the Faculty should have only an interim appointment and second, Harvard undergraduates must be involved in the searches for both the interim and permanent FAS deans.The notion of a permanent dean is certainly tempting, given the vacuum of leadership left behind by the resignations of Kirby and University President Lawrence H. Summers. But there are numerous disadvantages...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) last night called on Derek C. Bok to appoint two students to a faculty committee that will advise the incoming interim president in his search for the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...only thing Thaksin can do is continue with the election and immediately appoint a nonpartisan body with a mandate to recommend political reform. But given all he's done to destroy the true intent of the constitution, he has no moral right to lead political reform in the future...