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...other political hot potato is who will serve on this new committee. Daschle and Lott are under growing pressure from their caucuses to appoint the chairmen and ranking minority members from the affected committees to be members of the new committee. That would lead to deadlock, Republican and Democratic leaders privately agree. "You'd end up having chairmen with their ego problems trying to deal with each other," says a GOP senator. Lott would rather pick other members for the panel who have some expertise in the subject...
...search for a new CEO at BIDMC is a top priority, Levy said. There is no search ongoing for a new CEO of CareGroup, and it will be up to the new head of BIDMC whether to appoint a president as deputy...
Bush will appoint doctors, lawyers and ethicists to a panel on bioethics to advise him on stem cells, cloning and other ethical quagmires of the brave new world. Dr. Leon Kass, who helped Bush make this decision, will lead the council...
...Although he was not born into an illustrious family, Tronchetti Provera married into one. His 1978 marriage to Cecilia Pirelli ended in divorce, but that didn't seem to hurt his stance with father-in-law Leopoldo, who continued to appoint him to top jobs at the family firm. (Tronchetti Provera has since taken up with a Tunisian model-showgirl known to Italians simply as Afef.) The Pirelli chairman does not yet yield the same kind of power as Agnelli, but he's trying. He took a major step in that direction last month when, together with the Benettons...
...minister recalls spending a night crunching a lengthy technical report to two pages for her. "She couldn't even get through the first few paragraphs," he lamented. "Then she asked if there were any new projects where she could cut the ribbon." Foreign investors are concerned that Megawati may appoint her husband's business cronies rather than solid professionals to the government's key economic jobs. Indonesia owes $140 billion in foreign debt, inflation is nearing double digits, and the rupiah is one of the weakest currencies in the region. Corruption remains rife. Many foreign companies have left, angered...