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...CORRECTION In the Oct. 20 article "Tech Shakeup," J. Michael Griggs was incorrectly identified as a lecturer on dramatic arts in the department of Visual and Environmental Studies and as an Office for the Arts liaison for Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club shows at the Loeb Theatre. In fact, Griggs is a lecturer on dramatic arts with the Committee on Dramatics and is the technical director of the Loeb Theatre for the American Repetory Theatre...
...best when we're boldest," used to be Tony Blair's catchphrase. He'd better hope it's true after a brutal Cabinet shakeup in the wake of multiple scandals and poor local-election results. Blair's top scalps included John Prescott, who remained his deputy but lost his departmental responsibilities, and Home Secretary Charles Clarke. But why did Blair demote Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to a job running the House of Commons? Perhaps Straw's efforts to cozy up to Blair's likely successor Gordon Brown rankled, but he's generally considered an effective minister with excellent relations...
...such measures, but they hope to learn from others' mistakes. If they can, the new system could put an end to reckless French government spending that has led to a fivefold increase in the national debt to €1.1 trillion over the past 25 years. "It signals a big shakeup," says Jean-Raphael Alventosa, a budget expert at the Cour des Comptes, the national accounting office, which will get more clout. Even France's love affair with hugely expensive - but glorious - infrastructure projects is changing: the Millau viaduct, the world's highest road bridge that opened last year, was entirely...
...Presidents have long turned to the staff shakeup or cabinet shuffle as a way of digging out of trouble. And George W. Bush is in trouble - his polls continue to hover in the mid-30s (although that's not bad compared to the GOP-controlled Congress, which, in one poll released this week, has sunk to a 23% approval rating.) After his famed "malaise" speech in 1979, in which he said the country was going through a "crisis of confidence," President Jimmy Carter offed his secretaries of Treasury and Health Education and Welfare. Ronald Reagan famously reshuffled his White House...
...grinning noticeably as he ducked back into the Oval Office, as if to say: Let ?em holler! The replacement of Bush?s first chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., with budget director Joshua B. Bolten may foster a badly needed sense of renewal and produce headlines about a shakeup. But this is the comfort food of staff changes - the replacement of a longtime family loyalist with someone who has been one of this President?s insiders since the Austin days...