Word: disarray
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Frederick "Fritz" Henderson will not have the luxury of a honeymoon phase. The new interim CEO of General Motors - whose predecessor, Rick Wagoner, resigned March 29 at the behest of the White House - inherits a company in disarray. Over the next 60 days, Henderson must engineering some kind of comeback for the sputtering carmaker, amid the glare of the media spotlight and mounting public outrage over disappearing auto jobs. (Read "Will Wagoner's Exit Put GM on the Road to Recovery...
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reason to smile: his opponents in this June's presidential election appear to be in some disarray. Former President Mohammed Khatami withdrew from the race late Monday, declaring his support for former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi. The news reflects the confusion in the anti-Ahmadinejad camp that began last week when Moussavi threw his hat in the ring. The reluctant Khatami had previously agreed to stand only after exhaustive negotiations with Moussavi had failed to convince the former Prime Minister to run against Ahmadinejad...
...Renzi's rise comes at a difficult time for the Democratic Party, the main center-left opposition to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition government. At the national level, the party is in utter disarray, mired in petty battles of personalities and unable to cast aside the remnants of bygone labels and ideologies. This week, Democratic party chief Walter Veltroni resigned after the party's sitting member in Sardinia was walloped in regional elections by Berlusconi's hand-picked candidate. After Veltroni's resignation, Berlusconi quipped that he is "getting used to not having an opposition...
After two weekends full of upsets, one might have figured that last weekend the Ivy League would sort itself out from this disarray...
...days to glue together a coalition. Most likely, the bartering will drag on for weeks, with outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert staying on as caretaker, probably until early April. Before the voting, Israelis said they wanted a strong leader. What they have instead is a prolonged period of political disarray...