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...think Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is facing tough scrutiny? The nominee for Iran's powerful position of Oil Minister, Ali Saeedlou, couldn't get past his educational résumé. A political prot??gé of Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Saeedlou had no oil-industry experience but boasted an impressive credential: a Ph.D. in "strategic management" from Hartford University, awarded in 2003, according to an official résumé distributed by the Iranian government...
...Kelly's career still flourishing? The long-held wisdom is that Americans will forgive any act that's followed by a sincere public apology, but since his brief 1994 marriage to then 15-year-old prot??gé Aaliyah (her furious parents eventually obtained an annulment), Kelly's lawyers have vetoed any show of contrition. Instead, he has pursued a strategy that is one of the most confounding--and contagious--developments in public life: aggressive shamelessness. It begins with silence in the face of outrage, then blooms into anger (usually at the media), followed by the defiant continuation of the very...
Much of the credit for Sichuan's transformation belongs to Premier Zhao Ziyang, a Deng prot??gé who served as the party's provincial secretary from 1975 to 1980. Zhao helped introduce the contract-responsibility system, the bedrock of rural reforms, in 1977. Families and individuals were assigned plots in return for promising to meet harvest quotas. Surplus crops could be sold to the state at higher prices. Eventually, peasants were also allowed to sell the extra grain at market. The experiment worked so well that it was adopted as a national policy in late...
Another King prot??gé, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, offered a sterner message in a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. King was not merely a non-threatening dreamer, said Jackson. "Dr. King was not assassinated for dreaming but for acting and challenging the government." He went on to lambaste President Reagan for failing to support any of King's efforts during his lifetime...
...Boras in southwest Sweden, Carlsson grew up in modest circumstances. The son of a seamstress and coffee-factory worker, he graduated from a commercial high school and went on to earn a degree in political science at the University of Lund in 1958. With Palme, Carlsson became a political prot??gé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, the architect of the Swedish welfare state. His first major post was as Minister of Education in the government formed by Prime Minister Palme in 1969. Carlsson served Palme until his death, acting as his personal deputy and attending to the mundane details...