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...academic affairs from 1993 to 2000, has stepped out of retirement to conduct low-key talks with senior staff in University Hall, department chairs, and others. “This is an informal, constructive look at what might be helpful for [Faculty] Dean [William C.] Kirby’s successor as he or she takes office,” Thompson said. Thompson was approached by Bok a couple of weeks ago, and she has since spoken to some administrators, including Kirby, divisional deans, and department heads. Thompson will be compiling advice and thoughts on how the academic administration is functioning...
...Saturday that all key Iraqi factions have agreed on Jawad al-Maliki as an acceptable Shi'ite replacement for controversial prime minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari was greeted as a sign of hope for the cause of Iraqi democracy. But whatever their differences in personal style, Jaafari and his designated successor are cut from the same political cloth - and they will face the same political obstacles that fueled Kurdish, Sunni and U.S. objections to Jaafari...
...McClellan said he will stay on "as we transition to a new Press Secretary over the next two to three weeks." A person who has been consulted about McClellan?s successor said Bush?s inner circle realizes that they need someone who is more than a mouthpiece and has credibility with the press. So in addition to traditional Republican communicators, Bush?s searchers are considering at least one member of the press - Tony Snow of Fox News Radio and former host of "Fox News Sunday." Snow is an informal finalist, according to these people. Bush insiders say to watch Victoria...
...accomplishments and give Republicans on Capitol Hill a new reason to unify with the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue. Within days of the announcement on March 28 that Bolten would be taking over April 15, people close to the President reported that they had been consulted about a successor to McClellan. Other oft-mentioned possible replacements for McClellan are Dan Senor, former chief spokesman for the Coalition Provisional Authority and senior adviser to L. Paul Bremer III, who was the senior civilian administrator in Iraq; Trent Duffy, formerly McClellan?s deputy and now a consultant and television analyst; and Robert...
...began to hear the forceful blows of his discipline ... there were more than a thousand terrible blows, precisely timed. The floor was covered in blood." That is not an early Da Vinci Code draft. It is a description of Opus Dei founder Escriv's routine by his eventual successor, quoted in a biography of Escriv. Escriv emphasized that others should not emulate his ferocity. But numeraries are expected, although not compelled, to wear a cilice, a small chain with inward-pointing spikes, around the upper thigh for two hours each day, and to flail themselves briefly weekly, with a small...