Word: reformer
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...Huchra, who also teaches a freshman seminar, praised the report’s advising reform plan...
...President of the latest, most crucial intelligence on threats to the nation's security. But the document, which for years has been produced by the CIA, came under much criticism during the investigations of prewar intelligence on Iraq. Now the PDB is in the midst of its biggest reform ever, as the new Director of National Intelligence, John Negroponte, takes over as its editor in chief...
...Simply changing the rules for the next time the council’s vice president resigns unexpectedly does not go far enough to address the problems with Capp’s undemocratic selection. As President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 continues to push his agenda for council reform, it would be sadly hypocritical for his right-hand man not to relinquish the power that he now holds as a result of the very kind of procedural mishap that the council ought to fix. And though he is by no means bound to go beyond the council bylaws...
...swept to national power in 1998, promising economic reforms without social hardship. But unemployment has risen dramatically, and the government has cut unemployment benefits, even as it cut taxes for corporations. That has angered unions and spd rank and file, who've vented their frustrations in a string of recent state elections. The spd lost in Saxony-Anhalt in 2002 and in Lower Saxony - Schröder's home state - in 2003. In April, it was forced into a grand coalition with the cdu in Schleswig-Holstein. The state polls are key to Germany's federal system because the states...
...enlist her 11-year-old son in a suicide pact. With preternatural calm, the boy resists. The incident, however, does not leave him unharmed. With both parents too self-absorbed to offer stability or guidance, Wilsey, an editor at the literary journal McSweeney's, careens among boarding and reform schools, a journey he recounts with clear-eyed, wry and poignant humor...