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Wolfowitz's allies say he is the victim of backlash from entrenched bank staff upset that he is turning up the heat on an anticorruption campaign begun by his predecessor, James Wolfensohn. That's probably overstating things. But the potential backlash against slashing the bank's staff and getting it out of lending would surely be epic. Which may explain why no World Bank president, Wolfowitz included, has attempted...
Although Kleinfeld has never been implicated in anything illegal, key directors on the supervisory board that oversees management felt a clean sweep at the top was necessary to restore the company's credibility. Kleinfeld's future took a dismal turn on April 19, when his predecessor and mentor, Heinrich Von Pierer, most recently the chairman of the supervisory board and under whose watch the alleged crimes occurred, resigned under pressure. The board then took off the table discussions to extend Kleinfeld's contract, which is due to expire in September, until it had a better idea of where the investigation...
...just glad it is other people. 10.FM: People are really passionate about their daily puzzles. Give us a taste of your most malicious hate mail ever.WS: I got some when I started out at the job in 1993. I was 36 years younger than my predecessor. In the older puzzle, if anything from the last 20 years showed up it came as a shock, like “what is that doing here? That is so out of character.” My philosophy is that crosswords should embrace everything in life. When I started there were people...
...spell the final word of the sentence.Ur’s personal “bazzaaam” has impressed a lot of people, and he was elected as HRDC president during his junior year. Traditionally, actors have served as the presidents, but both Ur’s predecessor and successor are techies.Ur has a theory about that shift: “We [techies] are so used to thinking of the arts in an infrastructural way, thinking about how to make stuff happen. I guess we make good administrators.”A computer science concentrator, Ur says that...
...anyone's venture is special to him. And the England of James I and his predecessor, Elizabeth I, suffered from overpopulation and poverty. Pushing people into other lands could solve both problems and even have a side benefit. As the Rev. Richard Hakluyt, England's premier geographer, put it, "Valiant youths rusting [from] lack of employment" would flourish in America and produce goods and crops that would enrich their homeland. The notion was so prevalent that it inspired a blowhard character in the 1605 play Eastward Ho! to declare that all Virginia colonists had chamber pots of "pure gold...