Word: second-in-command
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...surprise, Carnesale was made provost, and since July 1, he has been living a dual life as both dean of Harvard's school of government and the University's second-in-command...
Former B.C.C.I. second-in-command Swaleh Naqvi was sentenced to eight years in the slammer and ordered to pay $255 million in restitution in connection with federal charges stemming from the biggest bank fraud ever. Naqvi now faces trial in New York Friday on state charges. But Naqvi's boss, B.C.C.I. founder Agha Hasan Abedi, is currently in Pakistan and unlikely to be brought to justice, says TIME correspondent S.C. Gwynne, who covered the scandal. Naqvi has pleaded indigence and probably won't pay the fines levied against him. Still, today's development is a significant victory for the feds...
...unlikely that America's saltiest president had much to do with Radcliffe College. But today, a week before University of Minnesota professor Barbara J. Nelson assumes the newly-created post of second-in-command and presidential stand-in at Harvard's appendix, it's worth remembering Johnson's words...
...lion but got devoured by a mouse. Last week the empire that Mickey built announced that Katzenberg, 43, was resigning Sept. 30, when his contract with the company expires. Chairman Michael Eisner, 52, had rebuffed his longtime protege's plea to succeed the late Frank Wells as second-in-command. And rather than stay as czar of all the % rushes -- supervising Disney's huge, 40-film-a-year slate, including the bijou animation unit -- Katzenberg walked. Joe Roth, the former movie boss of 20th Century Fox who was running the Caravan unit at Disney, assumes Katzenberg's responsibility...
...with mortality two weeks ago, when he was rushed to surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member said it was "under active consideration," and according to one source, the company may solicit a list...