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John Roberts not only has an abiding philosophy, but he also has a temperament. He is a technocrat of appellate law and a groupie of Supreme Court culture. He clerked for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and became one of the most prominent members of the Supreme Court bar as head of appellate practice at the law firm Hogan & Hartson. Roberts argued 39 cases before the court--which meant studying the personalities of Justices to whom he would direct his arguments and identifying the questions that might pique their intellectual fancy...
Medvedev is the paragon of a top corporate-statist-technocrat executive for the new Russian corporate state. Prior to 2002, when he came to head Gazpromexport, Medvedev had never been involved with natural gas. Born in the far eastern island of Sakhalin to the family of a Soviet air force officer, he left the island in his teens. In 1978, upon graduation from the fabled Phystech, Moscow's Institute of Physics and Technology--Russia's answer to M.I.T.--Medvedev, who majored in automated control systems, got a job with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO...
...Sydney before embarking on a trans-Pacific flight last Wednesday, is Alternative Prime Minister of Australia. As he fronts this week's ALP national conference for the first time as leader, Rudd will be playing to his party's supreme policy-making body. The former diplomat and high-level technocrat is not a creature of Labor's factions or union base, which makes him stronger outside the party than within it. If the polls are accurate, people are wild about Rudd, who is trying to convince them that Labor will provide a more prosperous future while the government is stuck...
...Mexico's Calderon, a Harvard-educated technocrat, will have to bend his own free-market ideology to keep a bitterly divided Mexico from erupting after he takes office. Special federal police forces have already been called in to quell deadly riots in the poor southern state of Oaxaca. In its broader context, the violence reflects a national backlash against the utter failure of globalization and a fledgling democracy to address Mexico's gross economic inequality. And that powder keg is nudging Calderon to acknowledge that the sort of social investment and regulatory reform programs for which he once ridiculed Lopez...
...Another casualty may have been the proposed unity government agreement between the Fatah organization of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist militants of Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Following the shelling, the two sides broke off talks to form a technocrat-led coalition government that would temper Hamas's militancy and allow international donors to lift their embargo on funds and most aid to the Palestinian territories...