Word: kiri
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...more important is what the hara-kiri hat trick shows about Robert Gates, the new secretary of defense, and the new kind of leadership he has brought to the Pentagon. "I don't have very much patience for people that don't step up to the plate in terms of addressing problems that are under their responsibility," Gates said shortly before he ordered Harvey to submit his resignation papers...
Within hours, chief economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, stranded in the snow at his suburban Virginia home, got a call from chief of staff Andrew Card. He wanted to meet the next day. In a time-honored Washington version of hara-kiri, Lindsey offered his resignation before he was fired. The next one expected to go, probably next month, is the head of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, Glenn Hubbard, who wants to return to teaching. His departure would complete the housecleaning that began when Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt resigned on election night. Though the abruptness...
...Kiri J. Mah ’02, a senior living in Wolbach, said she had heard rumors about the renovations starting early for a while before she received a letter from the Pforzheimer House administrator confirming the move...
Although outgoing president Kiri J. Mah ’02 said in the past the AAA has focused more on main-stay events such as weekly discussion groups, the new committee will invite speakers to Harvard to commemorate historical events like the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and race riots in Los Angeles following the Rodney King verdict, both of which have anniversaries...
...Schaik, seeking to find that control group of orangutans to answer those great questions about men and monkeys that could only be answered here in the wild, crossed the Simpang-kiri river, persuading the illegal loggers to give him rides through unending kilometers of rotting stumps and splintered branches. He was just a tourist, he told them, but had they by any chance seen any neesia trees still upright? He finally hit pay dirt in August of 1999. "On our last trip in," the lanky Van Schaik recounts, "the loggers said, yes, there are a few crooked trees left that...