Word: seliger
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...According to analysts, continued abuses at the hands of security forces and Pakistan's shadowy intelligence agency, the ISI, have intensified separatist feeling to an unprecedented scale. "Baluch nationalism is more broad-based, is a more serious phenomenon than at any time in the past," says Selig Harrison, a leading authority on the Baluch and director of the Center for International Policy in Washington. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...erosion of benefits,” said panelist Cathy Schoen, senior vice president of The Commonwealth Fund. The panel also included Christopher T. Robertson, a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School, Melissa B. Jacoby, a law professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Matt Selig, the acting director of the Health Law Advocates. Robertson stressed that many individuals with health insurance still end up in debt due to medical costs. “Approximately two-thirds of people who [experienced] home foreclosure had medical insurance,” he said. Selig discussed the conflict between the interests...
...think [Bosworth] would be a very good appointment. He has had experience in the most senior levels." - Selig Harrison, director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy. Boston Globe...
...proportions, the equivalent of an all-nighter with the music cranked and every care in the world, or at least the anger and bitterness of the 1994-95 players' strike, easily forgotten. The 1998 Yankees, the winningest team of all time, were just part of the fun for Bud Selig, whose caretaking role as interim commissioner finally ended in midsummer. Bud Selig, who had owned the Milwaukee Brewers, was the ultimate insider...
...game became twisted into a perversion, its nuances and subtleties blasted away by the naked obsession with power. Baseball was reduced to the lowest common denominator: to whack the ball farther or to heave it faster. Baseball's inability and unwillingness to act made silent partners of Selig and his traditional rivals at the union, leaders Don Fehr and Orza. Neither side had the smarts or the stomach to make steroids a front-burner public issue...