Word: czars
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...Administration took office, Rice kept Clarke in his job as counterterrorism czar. In early February, he repeated to Vice President Dick Cheney the briefing he had given to Rice and Hadley. There are differing opinions on how seriously the Bush team took Clarke's warnings. Some members of the outgoing Administration got the sense that the Bush team thought the Clintonites had become obsessed with terrorism. "It was clear," says one, "that this was not the same priority to them that...
When the Ottoman empire of the mid-19th century started coming apart at the seams, Russia's Czar Nicholas I memorably dubbed it the "sick man" of Europe. Last week, the empire's successor, Turkey, reeled in political chaos as its own sick man, Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit - who suffers from a host of ailments linked to a chronic neurological disease - stubbornly clung to power. With Ecevit's three-party coalition teetering on the brink of collapse, his Democratic Left Party (D.S.P.) essentially split in two and parliament in recess, Ecevit, 77, defied a growing chorus of demands...
...vicious vendetta against Martin Luther King Jr.... His informers, infiltrators and wiretappers delved into the activities of even the most innocuous and nonviolent civil rights and antiwar groups, trampling on the rights of citizens to express grievances against their Government... As an administrator, he was an erratic, unchallengeable czar, banishing agents to Siberian posts on whimsy, terrorizing them with torrents of implausible rules, insisting on conformity of thought as well as dress. --TIME...
Behind the scenes, a very different story was unfolding. With public confidence in the war on terrorism waning, the White House was plotting to get back in the game. Beginning in late April, a small working group--led by Card, budget director Mitchell Daniels and Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge--met secretly to design a plan for a new homeland-security system. Hyped as the most sweeping overhaul of the Federal Government in more than 50 years, the proposal put before Bush was drafted in just over a month. An official describes the clandestine enterprise as "sort of like...
...first year at the College, Rubins—who Cadiff says was “the czar of the Harvard theater scene”—let Cadiff assistant direct the spring 1974 production of Kiss Me Kate, Rubins’ last show at Harvard...