Word: technocrat
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...history is a pastiche of fact, rumor and not a little romance. He was born, it is believed, in Siberia, while his father was being trained as a technocrat under Stalin. But his official biography transposes his birth to the slopes of Mount Paektu on the North Korean-Chinese border--for many, the mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people. Kim's mother died when he was a schoolboy. When the Korean War broke out during his father's rule, he was spirited off to the safety of Manchuria. In the 1960s Kim is believed to have trained...
...conservative congressional overlords 18 months ago and propelled Barry into a second involuntary retirement. (His first involuntary retirement came in 1990, after he was videotaped smoking crack in a D.C. hotel.) In his place, we elected the city's former chief financial officer, Anthony Williams, a bow tie-wearing technocrat whose main qualification seemed to be that he was not Barry...
...inception after World War II, Europe has traditionally picked the IMF's leader (America got to choose the head of the World Bank). And on Monday, following months of lobbying, Schroeder convinced the 14 other European Union member nations to throw their support behind Caio Koch-Weser, a German technocrat who speaks five languages and has worked at the World Bank for a quarter of a century. But the Clinton administration wasted no time slapping down the E.U. choice, asserting that Koch-Weser is a lightweight who lacks the leadership skills to run an organization that acts as the world...