Word: second-in-command
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...feel that David Kuo, the former second-in-command in the President's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, is a smart man, but I am shocked that he bought into the promises of the current Administration lock, stock and barrel. This country is too religiously diverse for one religion to have an office in the White House. I am sorry for Kuo's feeling of personal betrayal, but what happened to the Evangelicals was just politics as usual...
...Republicans who fear that the Foley scandal might keep Evangelicals away from the polls in November, here comes another challenge--in hardcover format. A new memoir by David Kuo, former second-in-command of President Bush's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, has the White House on the defensive with its account of an Administration that mocked Evangelicals in private while using them at election time to bolster its support. In this exclusive adaptation from the book, Kuo writes about how his White House experiences left him disillusioned about the role religion can play in politics...
...right to impose troops against a nation’s will. Better, say critics, to offer a new package of incentives to Sudan. Moreover, critics worry that planting a foreign force in a predominantly Muslim nation like Sudan risks sparking jihad. Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, released a video last Friday urging Muslims to defend Sudan from “crusaders masked as United Nations [troops].” In light of such alarming sentiments, it is unsurprising that all internal efforts have failed to bring peace. A 2004 ceasefire was soon violated...
While there are no plans to hire a new deputy dean to replace his former second-in-command, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has appointed Ford Professor of Human Evolution David Pilbeam, an administrative veteran, to a new post as his senior adviser. Former Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien was forced out of her post this summer. Her position, formed in 2004, was created to lighten Gross’ workload. Gross told The Crimson at the time of O’Brien’s hiring that his responsibilities...
...joined the Chicago office of Goldman Sachs in 1974. The investment banker rose through the ranks of the famous firm to become its top officer in 1999. Paulson will be succeeded by Lloyd C. Blankfein ’75, a former Winthrop House resident who is currently the second-in-command at Goldman Sachs. If Paulson is confirmed by the Senate, his departure from Wall Street and move to Washington, D.C. will be a return rather than an introduction. Immediately out of Business School, Paulson served for the Nixon administration as an aide to the assistant secretary of defense from...