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...reconstruction and civil administration and quickly, Washington hopes, shift humanitarian assistance from the military to U.N. and nongovernmental agencies. Initially, there was talk of making a civilian top dog to take some of the onus off a military occupation. But a senior White House official tells TIME, "A civilian czar is not what people have in mind." The U.S. feels that one more link in the chain of command would weaken the effectiveness of the operation...
...what's really wrong with Japan's economy. It's deflation. In January, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi called falling prices Japan's "most urgent policy task" and declared he was taking all possible steps to curb its ravages. Such posturing drew praise from experts ranging from Japan's economics czar, Heizo Takenaka, to the chairman of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers, R. Glenn Hubbard. Front and center in Koizumi's new war is the Bank of Japan (BOJ), where Governor Masaru Hayami ends his five-year term on March 19. In a string of a barely veiled...
...front line of protecting the nation against attack. That it failed to do so in advance of 9/11 is no reason to break up the agency, as some have proposed, or to dilute the power of the director of Central Intelligence by placing him under a White House intelligence "czar," which would merely create another layer of bureaucracy...
...reached 6%--a 50% increase since November 2000--but housing prices have stayed at or near historic highs, the number of homeless appears to be at its highest in at least a decade in a wide range of places across the U.S., according to Bush's own homelessness czar. "It's embarrassing to say that they're up," says czar Philip Mangano of the number, "but it's better to face the truth than to try to obfuscate...
Bush reinstated last spring the office of homeless czar, a position that had been dormant for six years, tapping Mangano to be head of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. He is liked by members of both parties and fits Bush's theme of faith-based compassion. A former rock manager who represented members of Buffalo Springfield and Peter, Paul and Mary, Mangano says his life changed in 1972 when he saw Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon, a movie about the life of St. Francis. For Mangano, who calls himself a homeless abolitionist, ending chronic homeless is a moral...