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...powerful woman in the world, according to a recent ranking by Forbes Magazine. While Faust’s ranking doesn’t quite measure up to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (number one) or Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (number four), Harvard’s first female president does outrank First Lady Laura Bush (number 60), news anchor Katie Couric (number 63), and the presidents of several small nations. Out of the 100 women on the list, Faust is the only one with a job in higher education, despite the fact that four Ivy League schools are led by women...
...monolithic or unified as is often portrayed. The debate over how to respond to the Western offer is being conducted amid a complex power struggle underway between Iran's firebrand president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and more pragmatic conservative forces (including Larijani) that dominate in the unelected executive bodies that outrank the presidency...
...their mutual success to friendly competition: "The reason she is moving up so fast is that she got to see all of my mistakes and has been able to avoid them," he says with a smile. He has four years' seniority over her and insists that she will never outrank him, since he will retire before that ever happens. Jim also vows that he will never let his wife beat him in any physical-training event, a hard promise to keep: when they were in Korea, Laura's unit had a yearly Iron Man Contest, and after...
...learn how to lead." Management skills are taught so rigorously that a group of visiting professors from the Harvard Business School, after sitting in on classes last year, pronounced their own institution to be "the West Point of capitalism." Cadets learn leadership firsthand by giving orders to those they outrank in the cadet chain of command--their classmates as well as plebes. "It isn't easy ordering your roommate to shine his shoes," shrugs one cadet sergeant. "But you have...
...actual crimes outrank those of our other offenders, but SADDAM HUSSEIN looks somehow more kempt--especially since he, unlike them, really was pulled from a hole in the ground...