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Claims made early on that no one could have predicted this calamity have been debunked; it was simply that no one had taken the initiative to spearhead the necessary changes. Michael D. Brown, the embattled former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director, is clearly one such specific individual whose guilt was exposed in the wake of the response. And, most importantly, the federal government’s shockingly slow and disorganized response to a disaster of such enormity is worthy of the strongest public reproof. With enough blame to spread all over, any attempt to spin it solely in one direction...
Here I am, two decades out of high school, and I'm still worrying about being popular. What if none of the other moms talk to me during drop-off? Or ask me on any play dates? Suppose the PTA president asks me to spearhead the wrapping-paper fund-raising drive and, pleading work pressure, I turn her down, and she goes into gossip overdrive? Those Mean Girls we have heard so much about can grow into Mean Moms, you know...
Though other initiatives will be placed under Beuhrens control in the future, his most immediate task will be to spearhead the University’s development of scientific research facilities for the campus in Allston it is currently planning...
...years ago, outraged allies in the Left Democratic party by backing the Italian bishops' call for voters to abstain from this week's referendum on assisted fertility and stem-cell research. But noisy squabbles among coalition partners over policy mask divisions that are even more bitter: over who will spearhead the election campaign. Doubts have grown over the past month about the leadership of Romano Prodi, 67, the former President of the European Commission chosen last year to take on Berlusconi. The recent slump in the E.U.'s popularity is bad news for Prodi, who enthusiastically pushed Italy into...
Zachary A Corker ’04 will remain at Harvard for another year, this time to spearhead the plan to convert Loker Commons into a permanent pub and eatery...