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...present, the HCC is an insular and self-preserving arm of the UC. The outgoing Chairman picks his or her successor upon vacating the office. Unimpressively, the most recent watershed reform to the HCC was the election of commission members by the UC. Under this system, no member of the HCC is even marginally accountable to the student body in any meaningful...
...been a terrible thing: Presidents need to be thinking past the horizon, as Jimmy Carter belatedly proved. Some of his best decisions-a strict monetary policy to combat inflation, a vigorous arms buildup against the Soviet threat-bore fruit years after he left office and were credited to his successor, Ronald Reagan. But then, Carter was among the worst recent Presidents as a Permanent Campaigner...
...half billion people, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (Fed) is frequently said to be second only to the President of the United States in power. It is no understatement to say that President Bush’s appointment of Alan Greenspan’s successor was one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency. Given the array of possibilities, we are surprisingly satisfied with Bush’s latest appointment of Ben S. Bernanke ’75. Bernanke’s résume is impressive. After graduating summa cum laude from the College...
...waves of assassins and saboteurs, seized warships and cargo vessels at sea, blown up at least one civilian airliner, hacked U.S. truce guards to death with axes and committed other barbarities without the slightest sign of self-doubt. After Kim Il Sung died in 1994, his son and apparent successor Kim Jong Il displayed the same steely confidence in his own political correctness. So last September, when a North Korean submarine ran aground on the South's coast and 26 armed infiltrators dashed ashore, Pyongyang erupted with the standard bluster. Not only was the North the "victim," its spokesmen said...
...markets investor in the world, right now,” Heller said. “If there’s somebody who’s the public face of the emerging markets asset class, it’s Mohamed.”El-Erian was seen as a likely successor for PIMCO Chief Investment Officer William H. Gross, who is in his 60s.“He’s certainly in a position where he’s clearly in the line to be the chief investment officer,” Gross told Bloomberg News in November 2004.While...