Word: bureaucratizing
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DIED. Maurice Papon, 96, French bureaucrat turned Paris police chief, convicted in 1998 of complicity in crimes against humanity; outside Paris. As a high-ranking officer of the Vichy regime based in southwestern France, he directed the roundup of some 1,600 Jews, whom he deported to German concentration camps. Papon, who said he had no idea what the Nazis planned for those French deportees and who was released from prison in 2002 for medical reasons, maintained in 2001 that he was "in no way responsible" for the murders of Jews...
...profile politicians are likely to be long and sensational, and the military-backed caretaker body says it wants to go after dozens of other pols as well-a potential disruption that could delay elections further. No wonder this week's other big news-the appointment of a respected ex-bureaucrat to head Bangladesh's electoral commission-was greeted with only muted applause. It may be a while until he gets to work...
When Weinberger picked Carlucci to be his deputy in 1981, many conservatives criticized the choice of a nonideological bureaucrat who had served with Jimmy Carter. At the Pentagon he was extremely sensitive to leaks, and after one such incident he had some 25 high-level officials, including himself, submit to lie-detector tests. "I believe in appropriate secrets," Carlucci says, "and I believe in keeping them." But unlike CIA Director William Casey, Carlucci is comfortable with the concept of congressional oversight of intelligence activities...
...lonely Kurd, exultant in the local paper after Saddam is hanged. Or the local mobster of Kazakh extraction. Or the Nepalese bureaucrat on a city government exchange program, whose father’s untimely death necessitated the retrieval of warm bull’s urine for mourning rites...
...film focuses on Edward Wilson (Matt Damon), a composite of historical figures, who starts out wanting to be a poet and ends up being the bureaucrat at the center of some of the CIA's most notorious activities. Damon is terrific in the role--all-knowing, never overtly expressing a feeling. Indeed, so is everyone else in this intricate, understated but ultimately devastating account of how secrets, when they are left to fester, can become an illness, dangerous to those who keep them, more so to nations that base their policies on them...