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...current task may be even more complex. Feinberg's mid-October report reassessed not only what the top 25 executives of each of the seven firms that received the most government assistance should be paid but also how. Unlike his job with the 9/11 fund, Feinberg's position as pay czar is not one that inspires sympathy. Some think his meddling has made the firms over which he has sway less competitive. Others say he didn't cut enough. But as Wall Street prepares to hand out eye-popping year-end bonuses, the larger question is this: Just how much...
...Kagan benefited from an environment far removed from today’s climate of precipitous endowment losses and spending curtailment. Minow faces the unenviable task of reconciling shrinking spending with a period of rapid, immense change in the legal industry that has altered the way law schools operate. As a result, some fear that as the school shrinks its budget, spectres of the school’s ideological battles of the past might resurface...
ADITO Chief of Operations Officer Polina Krass ’11 says that the task of documenting experiences with photography reveals how important microfinance is to those it has helped. “Microfinance is much more than an idea. It’s much more than a strategy. It’s about empowering people,” Krass says. “And I think empowerment is something easier captured in photography than anything else.” She gives an example of one of the photographs shown at the Sackler: the women, pictured smiling and clapping ebulliently...
...attempt to ease its task in South Waziristan, the army has sought to isolate what remains of Baitullah Mehsud's network by striking arrangements with such unsavory groups. Most notably, it has revived non-aggression pacts with two powerful militant leaders from the rival Wazir tribe. As the army advances toward the Baitullah Mehsud network's strongholds from three different directions, Mullah Nazir in western South Waziristan and Hafiz Gul Bahadur in North Waziristan are facilitating its movements. Troublingly for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, both groups still mount cross-border attacks there. To the east, Turkistan Bhittani, a militant leader...
...this was Konrad Adenauer in 1957. While in Washington, Merkel will also get a glimpse of the tortuous negotiations that are taking place on health-care reform in the U.S. - and she may come to wonder whether her fresh-faced new Health Minister is really up to the gargantuan task back home...