Word: jacked
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...success of the surge has led to a reassessment of Odierno, 54. Retired General Jack Keane, who consulted closely with Odierno on the surge in late 2006, was so impressed that he later used his powerful connections in the Administration to push for promoting Odierno to Petraeus' job. "He went through a complete metamorphosis," says Keane. "He educated himself and became the pre-eminent operational commander we have in conducting irregular warfare...
...Robert Dugger, former policy director for the American Bankers Association. The panel, entitled “Financial Re-Regulation: The Economics and the Politics,” was moderated by Richard Parker, a senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center and a HKS lecturer. Former U.S. Senate Staff Attorney Jack Blum—who has worked on bank and securities firm compliance, international financial crime, money laundering, and offshore tax evasion—rounded out the panel. The panel spent much of the time addressing the root causes of the economic crisis, and generally agreed that the lack of transparency...
...million gift is not the novelist’s first contribution to the University. She previously donated art related to her controversial belief that a well-known Impressionist painter, Walter Sickert, was the 19th-century killer Jack the Ripper...
...Cornwell departed from her usual fiction writing to advance this argument in her book “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed.” She used forensic research techniques to argue that Sickert, an English painter, was, in fact, the serial killer...
...research on Jack the Ripper, Cornwell used Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, where the new position will be established. She traveled with a team of scientists, including Harvard conservator Anne Driesse, in the fall of 2005 to study papers and inks in England...