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...Deborah Rodriguez left two sons and a failed marriage behind in Holland, Michigan, when she headed to war-shattered Afghanistan in 2002 with a few weeks of disaster-relief training and a suitcase full of moist towelettes. "I imagined I would spend the month there bandaging wounds, splinting broken limbs, clambering over the rubble, and helping people who were still hiding from the Taliban," she writes. "I didn't have any idea that I'd still be here five years later doing spiral perms and introducing the art of pubic waxing...
There wasn't much choice for the British Petroleum chief who smeared his gay lover to protect himself, or for the Administration's "AIDS czar," Randall Tobias, 65 and a father of four, who resigned after his name surfaced in the case of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the "D.C. madam" charged with racketeering. She denies running a brothel; he denies getting anything more than a massage. But that was sufficient to sink him, since his mission was promoting abstinence and fighting prostitution...
...becomes a sort of secret science,” Ryan says of less common fields of study, “some knowledge that you have access to that others don’t.”Head Tutor and Director of Undergraduate Studies of Folklore and Mythology Deborah Foster, who herself studied African folklore traditions, encourages students to use the concentration to explore their interests. “What we can do,” Foster says of her concentration and others of its size, “is listen to what the student is interested...
...attorney general is not a popular figure in general,” said Deborah A. Popowski, co-president of the Advocates. “It is pretty mainstream politics on the campus to oppose Alberto Gonzales...
...practice, companies find that a multipronged approach leads to results. General Electric initiated an aggressive diversity strategy under former CEO Jack Welch that included employee networks, regular planning forums, formal mentoring, and recruiting at colleges popular with minorities. Perhaps most significantly, GE appointed a chief diversity officer, Deborah Elam. In 2000, women, minorities and non--U.S. citizens made up 22% of GE's officers and 29% of senior executives. By 2005, their ranks swelled to 34% among officers and 40% of senior execs. "Training just to train is not enough," says Elam. "You've got to have accountability...