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...tempting to find comfort in the fact that off-camera, at least, these powerful men had been so passionately divided over issues of law and liberty. And Bush did ultimately yield to Ashcroft, Comey and Mueller. But just eight months later, the President chose Gonzales to be Ashcroft's successor. The lessons of that night--namely, that political fealty could go too far--went unheeded. Three years later, even Republicans are demanding that Gonzales resign. Said Comey in earlier testimony about the damage done: "I don't know [of] any way you can get the department's reputation back...
Warren Buffet may not care whether his successor has a college degree, but I am confident that he would care if his successor had lied on her résumé. What will the world become if we abandon honesty? Do we really want our kids to lie on their college applications just so they can get accepted to M.I.T...
...already begun soliciting names of professors to serve on the Standing Committee on General Education, which will oversee the development of a full menu of courses for the new curriculum. Pilbeam said he plans to set up the committee before July 1, when he will be replaced by a successor who has yet to be named.“The standing committee has to be large enough to be reasonably representative, but small enough to be nimble,†Pilbeam said in an interview after yesterday’s meeting. He added that he hoped to include...
...dean of the Radcliffe Institute to be chosen in a very broadly extended process where we look for someone who doesn’t just seem to be my pick,†Faust said in February. “It’s not usual to pick your successor so I would like to have a lot of input and a lot of thought about where Radcliffe should...
...Replacing Dadullah won't be easy for the Taliban, in part because his own brutality may have eliminated a number of potential successors. "He killed the guys above him, so quite a lot of capable or respected leaders have disappeared in his move up the ranks of the Taliban," says a Western Intelligence official in southern Afghanistan. A possible successor, Ahktar Mohammed Osmani, was killed in December in an air strike. Another, Obaidullah Akhund, was captured in February. But it remains to be seen whether Dadullah's death will herald a breakdown of the Taliban's command-and-control structure...