Word: czars
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Given the enormous responsibilities about to be thrust upon his shoulders and the less than clear powers he will have to carry them out, any ambivalence Negroponte might have about his promotion would be understandable. As the government's new intelligence czar and the President's primary intelligence adviser--a position created late last year by Congress after fierce lobbying by the 9/11 commission and families of the 9/11 victims--Negroponte has the job of making sure that the kinds of intelligence stumbles that led up to 9/11 and the sorts of miscalculations about Iraq's WMD programs...
...with his next assignment. In part owing to the White House's reservations about making drastic changes, the bill establishing the DNI was written with more than enough ambiguity for Rumsfeld and Goss to exploit if they so choose. For instance, the White House resisted giving the new intelligence czar so-called tasking authority over the CIA director, according to one expert, meaning that in practice, Negroponte can't, say, order up CIA action...
...first task of a fun czar is to throw a good party. The second task of a fun czar is to have a good time. With all eyes on Pub Night—success? failure? really bad joke?—FM decided to look elsewhere. On his big coming-out night, did the fun czar have fun? A minute-by-minute analysis...
...Regardless of how one uses it, Crimsoncupid seems likely to take its place as the latest valuable addition to the Harvard student’s social arsenal, a repertoire that has earlier been bolstered by Thefacebook.com and Zachary A. Corker ’04, the “fun czar...
...citing of the hypothesis that women trailed men in innate ability in mathematics and science. That evening, controversial Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly took on another Harvard news item—the College’s hiring of a so-called “fun czar,” Zac Corker ’04. Corker’s hiring made belated headlines early in the New Year when a Reuters story on his appointment was picked up by major networks months after his hiring and the story’s deserved shelf-life...