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...Only veteran committee member Nancy Walser has said that she will vote to renew his contract at the Juley 18 meeting, while three of the committee’s seven members—led by Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72—have said that they will oppose...
...turnover has hit some of the most vital positions in the bureau hierarchy. In five years, six different people have moved through the post of counterterrorism chief, overseeing what has been the FBI's core mission since 9/11. And June 2 was the last day for 29-year veteran Gary Bald, 52, who retired just 10 months after being tapped to start up the FBI's new National Security Branch. He's taking a security job with Royal Caribbean Cruises...
...story: Rosneft's oil reserves are vast, its costs are low by international standards, and the fact that it will remain majority-owned by the Russian state after the flotation will ensure it receives preferential treatment at home. And the company claims it's playing by Western rules; a veteran European banker has joined the board, and the firm uses U.S. accounting standards. Rosneft's [an error occurred while processing this directive] goal, Bogdanchikov promises investors, is "to set a new standard of corporate governance in Russian oil and gas." Try telling that to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oligarch...
...left to express its "visceral anger," he says; unlike previous calls for presidential impeachment, which involved "clear criminal violations," the call by Berkeley and other cities to impeach Bush is about opposition to "judgment calls dealing about very, very serious national security problems." But as a veteran of the sharply divided blogosphere, Volokh should know better than most that criminality is in the eye of the beholder - and Berkeley's exercise in urban overreaching could well have nationwide resonance...
There in brief was the divide between the new President who had a whip in his hand and the veteran financier who could barely imagine that whips could be wielded by anyone in Washington. After Morgan departed, Roosevelt confided to Knox his bemusement at the financier's manner. Morgan, T.R. said, had acted as though the President of the U.S. was just "a big rival operator...