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...hundred nonviolent Iraqis who were being held for anti-American activities--a small start in getting angry locals to sign on to Washington's plan for self-rule. Bush's Baghdad team is also distributing a million leaflets throughout Iraq urging participation in caucuses for a constitutional assembly and interim administration. Over the next couple of months, up to 25,000 Marines will replace the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, and the Marines are getting etiquette lessons to help them win the hearts and minds of the locals--something the Marines have, in any case, long felt they're better...
APPOINTED. JOHN THAIN, 48, president of investment bank Goldman Sachs; as chief executive of the beleaguered New York Stock Exchange; in New York City. Thain, a well-regarded technocrat, will take over the CEO post from interim chairman and chief executive John Reed, who will remain chairman under a new structure that splits the chairman and CEO jobs. Both were held by Dick Grasso, who resigned in September in the wake of protests over his hefty pay package...
...think it’s an incredible coup for Boalt Hall and for the University of California,” Boalt Hall Interim Dean Robert C. Berring Jr. ’71 said. “I think Chris is going to bring a real vision about legal education and about the role of law in society—and it’s going...
Gray replaces Sara Oseasohn, the director of financial services for Harvard Planning and Real Estate (HPRE), who served as the interim vice president of Harvard Real Estate Services. Oseasohn took on that role when HPRE was split into two branches last year. Its former head, Kathy Spielgelman, became the director of Harvard Planning and the Allston Initiative...
...there is a new constitution. It is a good thing our Founding Fathers didn’t have to follow that rule. A constitution can, and will, emerge as the political life of the country takes shape, just as it did for America in the 1780s. We need an interim Iraqi government...