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...leadership for the next five years. He had engineered the departure from the Politburo of Zeng Qinghong, a Jiang ally who wielded enormous influence in the party. He had also stage-managed the promotion of several protégés to senior positions in the party's highest councils. And Hu had even managed to have his concept of "scientific development" - a catchphrase for implementing a more socially equitable, sustainable and deliberate approach to China's economic growth in coming years - enshrined in the party's constitution. (Jiang only managed to achieve such immortality for his pet philosophical catchphrases...
Competence and honesty are two words for the GOP that--following a recent spate of ethical scandals--have proved elusive. Yet 36-year-old Jindal, a second-term Congressman, was able to win Louisiana's highest office (a position that has almost always been held by a Democrat) on a platform of ethics reform and eliminating corruption. Following his January inauguration, Jindal will be the nation's youngest Governor, one of the Republican Party's few rising stars and the first Indian American to occupy a Governor's mansion...
...senior U.S. diplomat told me. "You've had mass meetings of tribal leaders from Anbar and Karbala provinces," which are the Sunni and Shi'ite heartlands, respectively. "The governors of those provinces were literally building trenches on their border, and they are now meeting regularly. You had the highest-ranking Sunni politician in the country, Tariq al-Hashemi, go to Najaf to meet with the leading Shi'ite cleric, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani. All of this would have been unthinkable only a few months...
When President John F. Kennedy went hatless during his Inauguration speech in 1961, he committed in essence a double homicide: of the hat industry and of the prospect that any bald man would ever have to the nation's highest office...
...play, so our season really reflects what the orchestra loves,” says Christine L. Barron ’09, violinist and president of the HRO. “In particular, ‘The Planets’ and Mahler’s 5th were among the highest voted pieces.”THE REIGN OF YANNATOSThe orchestra as it appears now was firmly shaped by Yannatos’s arrival at Harvard, which came at a troubled time for the HRO.“Dr. Y,” as members of the orchestra affectionately call him, became...