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Finally, a high-profile political appointee can send a strong signal to a nervous ally (or potential ally). A good example is Boris Yeltsin, who was delighted when Bill Clinton told him in 1993 that former Vice President Walter Mondale would come as the new ambassador. When Mondale changed his mind, Clinton sent Thomas Pickering, then the country’s most senior career minister, in his place. Yeltsin was furious, feeling he had been saddled with an apparatchik. He reportedly never trusted Clinton again...
...signal Harvard’s desire to welcome tenurable junior faculty, Kirby announced in February 2005 that departments could advertise assistant professorships as “tenure-track...
...recording for personal use does. Slingbox specifically avoids the P2P (peer-to-peer) reach associated with music-sharing services like Napster, which got in trouble by allowing users to share material illegally. "We allow only one stream at a time,'' he notes. That is, a Slingbox routes a TV signal only to its owner. Users cannot configure it to spread the signal out to other recipients. Still, the temptations are strong. At MipTV in Cannes, Krikorian was mobbed with interest after showing off the device. A French commercial broadcaster, to take one example, was asking to co-brand the Slingbox...
...acceptance to Harvard University. Many will tell you to ask yourselves, “Is Harvard right for me?” Instead, the correct question is, “Am I right for Harvard?” Fear not. Your red folder, awkward mannerisms, and overfilled suitcase signal that, yes, you are indeed ready to join the ranks of John Adams, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Hillary Duff (extension). You are now part of the Elite. But for the uncertain amongst you, rest assured that Harvard is indeed the only university worth your consideration. It should not surprise you that...
...anything, the very public U.S. intervention against Jaafari slowed rather than expedited his ouster. Washington's pressure, especially Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to Baghdad, appeared to only have hardened Jaafari's resolve to remain in power. The decisive intervention may have been the reported signal from, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's leading Shi'ite spiritual authority. Sistani had refrained from intervening on the question of the nominee, although he had insisted that the Shi'ite bloc remain united at all costs. But a meeting Wednesday by UN representative Ashraf Qazi with the cleric, who refuses...