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Williams had driven 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to Eldorado, Texas, in the hope that a brief encounter with modernity would allow him--and others like him--to push it once more far from his life. He is a believer in an antique and renegade Mormon sect that has endeavored for more than a century to keep polygamy alive in North America. His three sons were among the 437 children removed in early April from the sect's ranch in Texas, and Williams was doing his part to get them back...
...there hasn't really been a significant change in dollar policy post-Rubin. In the 1970s and '80s, the Treasury Department was constantly buying or selling foreign currencies to push the dollar this way or that. Since 1995, when Rubin took office, Treasury has made only a couple of token moves and since 2000 hasn't intervened at all. World currency markets are so huge and active, the thinking goes, that trying to manipulate the dollar is largely futile...
...deans have traditionally taken a largely advisory role in such searches, advocating for particular departments in need of new hires while leaving the budgetary details and final say on search authorizations to Smith. The changes will push more authority their...
Jimmy Carter, as a former President, could have wide influence, should he decide to push for a resolution...
Harold Ickes, Clinton's adviser, is leading her campaign's push to seat Florida and Michigan delegates...