Word: czars
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When the student body rallied for the autonomy of Phillips Brooks House, the dean acted practically by keeping to his schedule rather than defend his appointment of Judith Kidd as Public Service czar to the protesters outside of his University Hall offices. And when, more recently, an attempted rape on Linden Street inspired students to decry the dearth of campus security, Lewis suggested what to him must have seemed a practical solution: women should not walk alone at night...
...Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...Senate, the negotiations over Helms-Burton stopped growth and foreign investments in Cuba in 1995. This year it will slow it but it won't stop it." After the Cuban refugee raft crisis in August 1994, it took a year before tourism to Cuba rebounded. As Cuba's economic czar, Laje is worried that a repeat will have dire financial consequences to Cuba. Until this latest flap, U.S.-Cuban relations had been in a warming trend. More than 250 U.S. delegations of businessmen, congressmen and other organizations visited Cuba last year...
...relatively small population of repeat felons is responsible for a disproportionate share of crime. Lock away the most energetic thieves and killers, and you make a serious dent in their business. "Most prisoners are violent or repeat offenders," says William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and drug czar. "Prisons do cut crime." Last week Bennett's Council on Crime in America, a commission he co-heads with Griffin Bell, who was Attorney General under Jimmy Carter, issued a report warning that violent crime is still higher than police records indicate because so much of it goes unreported. They urged...
...could he not have known? Speer joined the National Socialist Party in 1931. Within a few years he had become a member of Hitler's small circle of intimates. Named Germany's war-production czar in 1942, Speer ran the munitions factories where hundreds of thousands of slave laborers died of overwork and malnutrition. To many skeptics, his protestations at Nuremberg and in his best-selling memoirs (Inside the Third Reich, The Secret Diaries) smack of deep denial and cover...