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...insist conflicts are rare and coordination is already being improved. But Hoekstra says House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter objected that the legislation would unduly expand Negroponte's authority almost before the ink has even dried on last year's law creating the new intelligence czar post...
Asked to describe his job, Corker immediately tries to dispel any misconceptions of him as a “fun czar,” a title that the Harvard Gazette first coined in January and that has since stuck...
...latest evidence that Negroponte is consolidating his power as the nation's intelligence czar. The May 2 memo, obtained by TIME and also reported late last week by GovWatch.com states that "effective immediately," Negroponte will participate in meetings of the NSC and its domestic counterpart, the Homeland Security Council (HSC). Meanwhile, CIA Director Porter Goss "will attend NSC and HSC meetings at the direction of the President." That's the polite Beltway equivalent of saying, "Don't call us. We'll call...
These accomplishments were enabled largely by the College’s new “fun czar.” Although Harvard was lampooned in the national media for creating the position, Zac A Corker ’04 served ably in his one-year term. To name a few of his accomplishments: He worked with University Hall and the Boston Police Department (BPD) to hammer out the details of this year’s Harvard-Yale tailgate. He convinced the puritanical Cambridge Licensing Commission to allow parties in House common areas to end an hour later. And he spearheaded...
...Covenant wrought in silicon, and it may be much further along than Gates gives it credit for. "We look at delivering a quantum leap in technology, not just Xbox version 1.5," a Sony spokeswoman said recently. ("Kutaragi's good at rhetoric," Gates says of Sony PlayStation czar Ken Kutaragi.) For all the Xbox's underdog pluck, the PlayStation 2 still has an overwhelming hold on the $25 billion global video-game market: 68% at last count, to Microsoft's 17%; Nintendo has 15%, according to DFC Intelligence, a market-research firm. (See box, following page.) Microsoft doesn't come...