Word: oversaw
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...added that he also oversaw an expansion of the school’s financial aid program, but that his successor will have to continue to raise funds for student scholarships...
...There is some evidence that Giuliani had at least a hint of his top cop's darker connections. Earlier this month, the New York Times reported that the man who oversaw the vetting of Kerik to be police commissioner in 2000 was aware of Kerik's ties to Interstate Industrial. According to his notes, the investigator, Edward Kuriansky, briefed both Giuliani and his chief counsel on the matter. Giuliani told a state grand jury last year that while he recalled Kuriansky's briefing, he had no recollection of hearing about Kerik's relationship with the firm or its principals. (Kuriansky...
...underfinanced, overperforming presidential quest is generating buzz. "You never put the crosshairs on a dead carcass," Huckabee tells me. "Somebody sees me as a real wall mount, and that's a good thing." Antitax groups and conservative columnists have also begun criticizing Huckabee, mostly for the tax hikes he oversaw in Little Rock...
...Paris, captured nearly $250,000 at a Singapore sale. Overall, leading auction houses Sotheby's and Christie's auctioned $190 million in contemporary Asian art last year, compared to $22 million just two years before. "This is just the beginning," says Swiss art dealer Pierre Huber, who in September oversaw a debut contemporary Asian art fair in Shanghai. "For so long, people did not know about Asian art. But now the world is turning to Asia, and what they see is amazing...
...Officially, Zhou never made a mistake. The Gang of Four, the radical clique that oversaw the Cultural Revolution, was overthrown in 1976. Mao Zedong, once deemed infallible, has been revised downward - according to official formulation - to 70% correct and 30% wrong. Only Zhou, the urbane architect of China's rapprochement with the West, remains untarnished among China's revolutionary heroes...