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...best department chairperson,” he said. “He could handle all the personal and ideological issues...
...polls, although it was recently forced to abandon its offices after the media revealed that the rent was partly being paid with illegal campaign donations. Its new headquarters: a dingy warehouse. Eager to halt its slide in the polls, the opposition Grand National Party last week elected a new chairperson: Park Geun Hye, popular daughter of assassinated dictator Park Chung Hee. It has also moved its workers to humble digs: a vacant lot, where they will work in tents and converted shipping containers. During the impeachment, Koreans saw that their politicians have passion and aggression aplenty. Now the pols want...
Although Gray said votes in the Senate Banking Committee, which is composed of 11 Republican senators and 10 Democrats, “can go either way,” he said the committee chairperson, Senator Richard C. Shelby, R-Ala., “was very supportive” of Mankiw...
...APPOINTED. MARINA BERLUSCONI, 36, eldest daughter of the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi; to head Italy's largest publisher, Mondadori, by its board; in Milan. Marina is also deputy chairperson of Fininvest, the Berlusconi family's holding company that controls Mondadori. The PM has come under fire for his multibillion-dollar business interests...
...Union leaders say increased labor activism isn't the reason Indonesia's clothing and shoe sectors are fading. Dita Indah Sari, chairperson of the Front Nasional Perjuangan Buruh Indonesia union says that a poor global economy, excess capacity in industries like textiles, and security concerns are causing companies to scale back. "If the government can't solve the political problems, don't look for a social group to blame," she says...