Word: bureaucratical
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...inadvertent bookends explore the Holocaust from its deceptively mundane beginning to a heretofore unstaged end. Conspiracy re-enacts the 90-minute meeting in which silky-voiced SS bureaucrat Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) gently bullies a roomful of Nazi functionaries into accepting the Final Solution as a fait accompli. A bloodless yet brutal testament to the violence of euphemism and groupthink--eerily indistinguishable from any middle managers' meeting--it is the banality of evil brought unignorably to life...
...Minister Junichiro Koizumi) with degrees in politics and law, become a naturalized Japanese citizen and legally changed his name to Obara. Once he had expunged his Korean lineage, Obara, with his wealth and his educational background, could have entered the nation's ruling élite, becoming, perhaps, a top bureaucrat or corporate chieftain. Instead he became a man of his times, leading a desultory, undistinguished existence, punctuated by his disastrous forays into real estate speculation. He formed an investment company, Plant, in 1988, relatively late in the bubble cycle. When the economy collapsed, nearly taking Obara's assets with...
...best part of the Swiss system is that it is student, parent and business driven. No bureaucrat armed with a state mandated aptitude test makes these decisions for them. What better way to encourage parental involvement; let the parents and students decide for themselves. I agree with Ross G. Douthat ’02 that it will never happen. But I can dream, can?...
...best to keep one's feelings and agenda hidden. To speak up, to shout or plead, is to be noticed; to be noticed is to risk being denounced. Best to blend into the scenery, to seem a gray person in a gray nation. Or to be a twisted bureaucrat (in He Jianjun's Postman or Ning Ying's On the Beat, both 1995). Only then will you flourish...
...India began the thaw, with a plan worked out between Vajpayee and a formerly obscure Indian bureaucrat, Brajesh Mishra, a 72-year-old chain-smoker from the Prime Minister's home state of Madhya Pradesh in central India. A former ambassador to China, Mishra is now the Prime Minister's most trusted adviser, his Principal Secretary and his National Security chief. Rivals describe him as the second-most powerful man in India. In 1999, Mishra overturned Indian Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani's threatened "hot pursuit" policy in Kashmir, which would have involved crossing the Line of Control and striking...