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That instinct helps explain why Gates thinks of himself as a transformational leader. After the CIA missed the fall of the Soviet Union, Gates launched reforms of 14 parts of the agency's operations, from analysis to satellite imagery to language study. Although not all these reforms bore fruit, CIA spending on Soviet collection and analysis shrank from 60% of its budget to less than 15%. Gates tried the same thing at Texas A&M, a school with an almost stubborn resistance to change--ending admissions preference for children of alumni, hiring hundreds of new faculty members and firing veteran...
Hedge-fund manager James Chanos of Kynikos Associates started a Washington-based trade group this year and so far has 18 fund managers onboard. He has testified before Congress and has been trying to explain that the issues the legislators are raising also apply to other financial players, like the trading desks of big banks, which are essentially internal hedge funds. The message is that taking hedge funds as shorthand for all high-risk investments is failing to see the larger picture. "The business is just too big and too high profile for Washington to ignore anymore," he says...
...community outreach director for SAMAR. Due to this innovation, the process is faster, less daunting, and cheaper, he said. “It used to be $70, now it is only $52,” he added. “Now everyone can do the drive, once we explain the paperwork.” But, Jain said, donors will still have to face blood tests if their marrow matches a patient’s marrow type. Noting that 70 percent of patients needing a bone marrow transplant match outside their family, Jain said, “It?...
...impeachment," Conyers said in the proceeding almost 20 years ago. Befitting the political and legal complexities of the case, Conyers has since tempered his remarks, thanks in part to a subsequent scandal involving the FBI lab which handled some of the Hastings evidence. Still, an aide declined to explain to TIME Conyers' current position...
...impeachment," Conyers said in the proceeding almost 20 years ago. Befitting the political and legal complexities of the case, Conyers has since tempered his remarks, thanks in part to a subsequent scandal involving the FBI lab which handled some of the Hastings evidence. Still, an aide declined to explain to TIME Conyers' current position...