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...NAMED. LIEUTENANT GENERAL DJOKO SANTOSO, 52, as Chief of Staff of the Indonesian army; in a military shake-up in which President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono also named new chiefs of the air force and navy; in Jakarta. Santoso replaces hard-liner General Ryamizard Ryacudu and is considered a top candidate to replace the soon-to-retire General Endriartono Sutarto as overall commander of the armed forces. Some see his selection as a move by Yudhoyono to gain greater control over the military, Indonesia's most powerful institution...
...president of the Harvard Management Company and four top endowment managers will leave the University this year in a shake-up that could spell the end of in-house management of Harvard’s endowment...
...fans do not respect the players. NBA basketball is played by some of the most magnificent athletes in the world, and they are intense competitors. Contact sports often create off-court fisticuffs. Suspending Artest for the rest of the season is an injustice. The NBA front office needs a shake...
...member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have never been as good as they are now," says a German official...
...want to watch and when they want to watch them. As founder and CEO of Technorati, a site that tracks more than 4 million blogs and countless RSS feeds each day, Sifry has seen firsthand how Web users are running their own virtual newsrooms. "There will be a big shake-up of what are considered established brands," Sifry says, with people supplementing established names like the New York Times and BBC News Online with blogs and other nontraditional sources of information. Perhaps, but it is just as likely that the current news leaders will use RSS to further augment their...