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...Southern District Court of New York. With a minimum of political fuss, she became the first Hispanic federal judge in the state. Nominated to the Appeals Court by President Bill Clinton in the summer of 1997, she was overwhelmingly approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee - including its then chairman, Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah. But Mississippi's Trent Lott, then the GOP leader, prevented the full Senate from taking up the nomination by using a "secret hold," a procedure that allows a Senator to prevent a motion from reaching the Senate floor for a vote...
...Chairman Wang, as some of the league members jokingly call him, runs the Huilongguan Super League, China's most influential grassroots soccer league. Huilongguan's members first met each other in 2002 through a classified ad posted on the suburb's community website. "We thought we'd have a kick around, but over 70 people showed up," Wang chuckles. The weekend kick around soon turned into eleven-a-side, and by 2004, nine teams and about 180 players competed in Huilongguan Super League's first championship. (See pictures of street basketball in China...
Last fall, some of those same Western nations helped elect Youssef chairman of the International Monetary Fund's policymaking committee, giving him a powerful voice in determining the IMF's role in the global economic crisis. It's the first time a non-Westerner has held the job, and Boutros-Ghali knows he carries the developing world's expectations. His main task, he says, is to get the IMF to better understand its borrowers. "[I've] experienced the pointy end of IMF policies," he says. "I bring a view different from a G-7 Finance Minister. I am sensitive...
...other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount in everything that we were doing,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts and co-chairman of the search committee. The top candidates auditioned for the orchestra by planning and leading an HRO rehearsal. “[Collecting student feedback] was a very deliberate, thoughtful, and extensive process for hearing what students had to say about rehearsal,” Megan added, citing written surveys of orchestra...
...Born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1959 to Talaat Moustafa, a construction and real-estate magnate. By 2007, Moustafa, who had become chairman of his father's business, had an estimated net worth of $800 million...