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Baños, who also oversaw the selection committee that chose Sachs, said that the London native was selected with strong support from committee members. “The challenge is that you need someone who is an extremely strong educator, and excellent manager, a good clinician and you need that person to have a strong presence in external affairs,” she said...
...election and later as his ambassador to the Vatican, he had less experience in veterans' affairs than most predecessors. In office, Nicholson defended budgets that turned out to be billions of dollars short of wartime needs, grossly underestimated the numbers of soldiers returning with post-traumatic stress disorder and oversaw a backlog of claims that has swelled to nearly 400,000. On Capitol Hill, during a House veterans' affairs committee hearing in May, he was forced to respond to stories of veterans who had died from a medication overdose or failure to obtain services. "If the VA was the Titanic...
...will also build upon the legacy of Joseph B. Martin, his predecessor, who led the school for the past decade and oversaw its massive physical growth...
...director general, Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, who steps down in October. That would appear to make Strauss-Kahn a lock for the job, although not if developing nations - emboldened by recent grumblings from Britain - propose a strong alternative candidate. In going to bat for the former Socialist Finance Minister who oversaw France's last big economic and employment boom in the late 1990s, however, Sarkozy gives little sign he's ready to foreswear the European grip on the position for the sake of greater international diversity...
Gross, a former chair of the mathematics department, came to University Hall in 2002 as the dean of undergraduate education. At the time, the office of the College dean was split between a dean of undergraduate education, who oversaw academic matters, and a dean of the College in charge of undergraduate life...