Word: commandant
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...must be thrilling to assume command of Sony, a luminous icon of Japan's postwar recovery. Thrilling, and perhaps sobering. Howard Stringer read history at Oxford, and now he is making it as the latest in a short list of Westerners to be installed as chief executive of a Japanese corporation. Doubtless, Stringer is aware that the significance of his promotion extends beyond Sony to the larger context of the convulsive changes that are transforming the landscape of Japanese society...
...ways he never intended, however. He's nothing like Saddam, personally: An accident of history - the car accident that killed his older brother, who had long been groomed as their autocratic father's heir - thrust the then 38-year-old opthalmologist who had been living in genteel London into command of a regime grounded on a brutality that would be instantly recognizable to Saddam. Bashar's indecisive handling of the job has left the elite most involved in the regime deeply unhappy at his performance, while Syria's long-repressed citizenry sees their neighbors on both sides ridding themselves...
...good old days of government hypocrisy, an overzealous bureaucrat came up with a brilliant solution to an age old paradox: How could the United States government break its own laws without getting caught? The solution was to create chains of command tenuous enough so that if a pesky, over-intrepid journalist or human rights activist caught wind of the government’s dastardly deeds, it could disclaim knowledge or responsibility for the entire mess...
Lead prosecutor Tom (Mad Dog) Sneddon, for 22 years district attorney of California's Santa Barbara County, tried to take command of the case early, with forceful but empathic questioning. Legal analysts have scoffed that he is a relative bumpkin next to the slicker, more experienced defense team, but this deeply religious father of nine has a near perfect legal record. And Sneddon knows how to talk to the jury, which may be more comfortable with his small-town style...
...photos of vehicles in Iraq sent to him by National Guard soldiers from the 42nd Infantry Division. The vehicles still had not been fitted with armor, despite Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's assurance they would all have extra protection by Feb. 15. General John Abizaid, the U.S. Central Command's chief, who was testifying, promised to investigate. "It's very frustrating," Ryan later told TIME, "that we're still not protecting our troops." --By Douglas Waller and Sally B. Donnelly