Word: cabineteer
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...Winslet has a daughter, Mia, 8, from her first marriage - she takes both kids to school most days). And, cementing her status as an icon of the Era of New Seriousness, she really likes hard work. Assuming she's paid her taxes, are there still any openings in the Cabinet...
...verge of dozing off. He later said he wasn't drunk, blaming his bleary, wobbly performance on jet lag, cold medication and a sip of wine. But the damage was done. Beset by international ridicule and an outraged Japanese public, Nakagawa was forced to resign from his Cabinet post...
...thorny patch of troubles indeed. And one that properly belongs on the President's desk, with help from his duly constituted Cabinet. It's one thing to be a czar in America; it's quite another to be the boss...
...belonging to more than one agency. Bruce Reed experienced this firsthand as director of domestic policy under President Clinton - the czar czar, if you will. He concluded that whether you say "czar" or "point person," it's important that someone have a mandate that cuts across competing domains. "The Cabinet may carry out policy," Reed says, "but the White House makes policy. Every White House has to find the right balance to make clear who has responsibility for what and how to resolve differences when turfs collide...
...Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa's appearance, during which he appears to be drunk, has been painfully public on the YouTube video of a G7 press conference in Rome last week. Today, it finally cost him his job. At a press conference in Tokyo, he resigned from his cabinet post, delivering yet another blow to the administration of Prime Minister Taro Aso as he struggles to keep control of his party and deal with the country's ever-worsening economic crisis...