Word: czars
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...Baker so much that the president brought him out of the State Department to serve as chief of staff during the campaign. During the second presidential debate, Bush made it clear that, if he were elected to a second term, Baker would serve as some sort of "domestic policy czar. Baker enjoyed his role in the State Department, but he was also the one person Bush could trust to prevent disaster in important situations...
...Republican solution over the last decade has concentrated on the drug user, bursting the seams of the nation's jails with people from the low, or user, end of the drug trade. At the same time, the Nancy Reagans and William Bennetts (the former drug czar) berated the citizenry over its appetite for narcotics: Just...
What President-elect Clinton must do is to appoint Morgenthau as the nation's next drug czar--with only this one responsibility, but with broad authority: follow the bucks. Don't bother him with interdiction...
Ironically, the staff bemoans the "vague" and "uncertain" status of Epps' proposals but then indulges in hollow generalizations like the need for a "courageous" person with "charisma" to serve as Harvard's race relations czar. Perhaps the staff should consider someone like Robespierre. He had courage and charisma...
...Yeltsin has proved immune to efforts by sycophantic followers to turn him into an uncrowned Czar. He is a true man of the people -- a real muzhik, as the Russians say -- who works in his own garden and loves to eat herring with boiled potatoes. To maintain the common touch, he often stops his official motorcade to chat with people on the street. Although he has an unfortunate habit of making promises dictated by the feelings of the moment, he has been courageous in supporting unpopular economic policies that have eroded his standing among ordinary citizens...