Word: bureaucratical
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...EXILED. FANG JUE, 47, former Chinese bureaucrat and prominent dissident, who was sentenced to prison in 1998 after calling for free elections; to the U.S. Although Fang was released from prison last July, he was detained again in November as part of a government crackdown prior to the 16th Party Congress. His expulsion comes a month after pro-democracy activist Xu Wenli was released and exiled, also...
...while France and Germany may have neatly solved their central dispute over the shape of the E.U.'s institutions, the initiative only begins to address the Union's biggest problem: the abiding impression among Europeans that the E.U. is all brains and no heart, an entity only a bureaucrat could love. The Chirac-Schröder agreement is a classic E.U. fudge. Instead of sharpening competencies, they are creating new potential overlaps. The dual presidency could all too easily end up being a duel, with the two executives at permanent war. And the deal reflects the kind of "something...
...policy aiming to educate native children in white Australian culture. Portraying their escape from the training camp, the film follows the girls as they avoid professional trackers and attempt to find their way home using the country’s long rabbit fence. Director Phillip Noyce avoids painting the bureaucrat in charge of the program (Kenneth Branagh) as a one-dimensional villain, opting for a more sophisticated view of the racial superiority that is still found in Australia. Rabbit-Proof Fence screens...
...Shang, 51, spent the bulk of his career as a bureaucrat at China's central bank, the People's Bank of China. His star rose there in 1994, a troubled time when inflation hit 24% and the economy was hobbled by a myriad of off-the-book loans between corporations. Zhu Rongji, then China's Vice Premier, was determined to untangle the mess. In meetings on the issue, "Shang impressed Zhu with his ability to cite numbers off the top of his head," recalls one of Shang's former bank colleagues. In addition, Shang is "likable and gives...
...transferred to the University of Wyoming in Laramie, where he majored in political science. There Cheney landed his first political gig, an internship in 1965 with the state senate, which was controlled by the G.O.P. It was his first engagement with the Republican Party. His father, a career federal bureaucrat with the Soil Conservation Service, and mother, a homemaker, were staunch Democrats who were proud their son shared a birthday with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Cheney would never leave the embrace of the G.O.P. When he was a Republican Congressman, his father would kid him that "you can't take...