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...bloated payrolls and debt-laden balance sheets. Under the reform agenda initiated by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in 2001, however, Japanese industry began to modernize and streamline. Taking the helm of the BOJ in 2003 as Koizumi's handpicked favorite, Fukui led central-bank intervention into uncharted waters. His predecessor frequently claimed impotence, saying there was little a central bank could do to stoke an economy's fires once it had lowered rates to zero. But Fukui stepped up or initiated a series of unorthodox "quantitative easing" programs designed to flood the market with easy money. For example, he more...
...Monday's attack in Sadr City may indicate that Sunni insurgents are retaliating against Moqtada al Sadr, a Shi'ite cleric and politician, and his Mehdi Army militia. Maliki, like his predecessor, has pledged to control or disarm militias affiliated with Shi'ite political parties, including the Mehdi Army...
Though Fowler-Finn has made progress in raising scores, he has not been able to augment enrollment, a problem that plagued D’Alessandro and her predecessor, Mary Lou McGrath...
Fowler-Finn is the third Cambridge superintendent in the last decade. His predecessor, Bobbie D’Alessandro, was dismissed by the School Committee for failing to boost test scores and enrollment figures. The Cambridge Rindge and Latin School almost lost accreditation during her tenure...
Summers has top-level connections at both firms. The president’s mentor and predecessor as Treasury Secretary, Robert E. Rubin ’60, is the chairman of Citigroup’s executive committee and a member of the Corporation. And in Summers’ final Commencement address, the president described the life of a Bronx mailman’s son who had risen to lead a top American financial firm, an apparent reference to newly appointed Goldman chief executive Lloyd C. Blankfein...