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...Rouge were still a rural guerrilla movement, and that of his return to Phnom Penh in 1975, when he showed up at the French embassy at the exact moment the Khmer Rouge arrived. As the only person there fluent in both French and Khmer, he served as the principal liaison between the French and the new regime, a job that gave him a first-hand view of the enforced evacuation of the city. One of his principal duties was to help man the entrance to the French compound, the eponymous gate, where Cambodians frantically sought refuge from the bloody maelstrom...
...remote-control help can be provided by a growing group of professionals known as geriatric-care managers (GCMs). They assess an elderly person's health condition and living situation, arrange and monitor in-home help, aid with placements in nursing homes or assisted-living facilities and serve as a liaison to family members, says Erica Karp, secretary of the 1,600-member National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers and owner of an agency in this practice area. GCMs, who typically have backgrounds in social work, gerontology and nursing, charge $50 to $150 an hour...
Professor of Economics David I. Laibson said the council fills three functions: it operates as a “sounding board” for economic policies proposed by the president; it initiates new ideas and economic policies; and it serves as a liaison between the president and Congress, the public and the United States’s allies...
...Neill’s move to Holyoke Center is not the only shift in the President’s office. Lucie McNeil was just hired as Summers’ new press liaison...
According to Vendler, who was the department’s liaison to Paulin, professors are slowly doing exactly that—getting used to it. “It’s a nine days’ wonder,” she says. “Everyone says, ‘Oh, what do you know?’ and then forgets about it. It’s an awkward situation, as she herself has admitted, but you muddle along...