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...while Obama's cadre of newly crowned czars has earned condemnation from the right, when it comes to recruiting presidential advisers he's in good company. During World War I, Woodrow Wilson appointed financier Bernard Baruch to head the War Industries Board - a position dubbed industry czar (this just one year after the final Russian czar, Nicholas II, was overthrown in the Russian Revolution). Franklin Roosevelt had his own bevy of czars during World War II, overseeing such aspects of the war effort as shipping and synthetic-rubber production. The term was then essentially retired until the presidency of Richard...
...with Indonesia's most prominent male feminist cleric, Kyai Husein Muhammad, Marcoes-Natsir has developed a course for teaching gender equality in Islam. On a hot summer morning in Cirebon, Northern Java, she taught a workshop on reproductive health, which had her gamely sketching fallopian tubes on a white-board, and parsing Quranic verses on reproductive rights. From the young men and women students, there were nods, furious scribblings, and the odd giggle. And then there was the group of young women, all majoring in gender studies at the local Islamic college, who were snapping pictures to post on their...
...agreement on regulating bonuses, was also forced to abandon his initial call for a precise salary cap. By the end of the summit, he suggested that the best solution would be stricter rules on capital levels - a proposal that has already been made by the Financial Stability Board, a group of central bankers and regulators that has been tasked by the G-20 with formulating a plan to target bonuses. (See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy...
...more than a decade of Lothar Just’s philanthropic relationship with Harvard, who began working with Germanic Languages and Literature Professor Eric Rentschler in the 1990s to help obtain several hundred 35-millimeter German feature films for Harvard’s collection from the Film and Television Board of Bavaria in cooperation with German directors and producers. Just approached Rentschler around 2005 to offer donating his film collection, Rentschler said. “This is going to be seen by film historians as an enormous help,” Rentschler said. “At a time when...
...outraged by the behavior of Las Vegas real estate agent Brooke Boemio. It is perplexing that she is aware that what she is doing is unethical, yet she seeks out clients and counsels them to commit fraud. I hope the Las Vegas Board of Realtors holds her accountable for her actions. Tracy Jones, ANCHORAGE...