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...Summers cited an inability to repair relations with “segments” of that school’s faculty as the chief reason for his resignation. And some professors at the University's other schools have expressed worries that the search committee may cave to Faculty clout in selecting Harvard's next leader...
...most of all, he had been hired as CIA chief at the very moment the job began to lose its clout. Less than a year after Goss stepped into the Langley, Va., post, Bush named Negroponte director of national intelligence (DNI) and gave him the authority to oversee and direct 16 intelligence shops--among them the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the FBI. Armed with new powers created by Congress, Negroponte was supposed to make the hidebound agencies work together and share information, something they had largely failed to do before 9/11. Goss's departure was, above...
Luria's innovation is to think of Dine Originals as one big chain--taken together, the 700 restaurants pull in about $1.4 billion in annual sales and represent $450 million in purchasing power--so its members get the clout and volume prices previously reserved for the big boys. Last month Luria signed a contract with Avendra, the top U.S. group-purchasing company in the restaurant-and-hotel sector, to get members lower prices on food and supply contracts as well as consulting advice on how to run their businesses more efficiently. The help may not reverse the chain-restaurant juggernaut...
...Bush Administration has long argued that Chavez is a would-be dictator in the mold of Fidel Castro and a threat to hemispheric stability. But if Chavez can use his combination of financial clout and pan-Latin charisma to keep the Puerto Iguazu parties united, it would undoubtedly help raise his standing from an anti-U.S. firebrand to the sort of regional coalition-builder Latin America has never had. Alex Main, a former international relations advisor to Chavez, concurs: "This is the first time we've seen a real challenge to the unity of the new Latin American left...
However, Ben-Shahar said that in the field of psychology, an article in a refereed academic journal has more clout than a published book. “It doesn’t hurt but it doesn’t help,” he said of his self-published work...