• They include Theophilus Danjuma, who was once chief of army staff and is now expected to be defence minister, Bola Ige (a former state governor), Adamu Ciroma (an ex-governor of the Central Bank) and Jerry Gana (a former information minister).

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  • In the second half of 2010, September, Nokia (NOK) named Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft (MSFT) employee and someone with a strong knowledge of the US software market, as its newest chief executive officer.

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  • His top challengers are councilmen Chris Bell, (D), a former Brown supporter, and Orlando Sanchez (R), a Cuban immigrant who is hoping to become the city's first Hispanic mayor.

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  • Quoted in the article were interviews by Mr. Stewart of the current U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Preet Bharara) and his deputy (Richard Zabel), the current head of enforcement at the SEC (Robert Khusami), and a former SEC Chairman (Harvey Pitt).

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  • The leading advocates of this view of executive power, unprecedented in its breadth, were David Addington, a former vice-presidential counsel (now chief of staff to the vice-president), John Yoo, a former Justice Department lawyer (now back in academia), and Alberto Gonzales, the former White House counsel, now attorney-general.

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  • Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan (also known as Karuna), a former head of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) and now a member of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (the main component of the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance government), may also become more prominent, although his main base of support is in the east.

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  • Carroll predicts all of the six incumbents (Diane Feinstein (D- CA), Debbie Stabenov (D-MI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Maria Cantwell (D-WA)) will win without trouble and points to open seat elections in Hawaii, where former Governor Linda Lingle (R) and former Representative Mazie Hirono (D) are locked in a tight race.

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  • That a former city councilwoman ( Hilda Zacarias), a communications leader for a prominent labor union ( Jesse Luna), and a psychologist-in-training ( Jes Sofia Valle) could be seen as mentors of course came as no surprise.

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  • We were a group of 14 experienced outdoors people (including a former river guide), and we knew to make the side canyons our top priority.

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  • Weissmuller, though, was good at wrestling alligators and a marvellous swimmer (a former Olympics champion).

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  • Jones-Drew (a former UCLA Bruin) maintains a strong affiliation with Southern California, which is a top 2 market in the United States.

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  • The timing is propitious: for separate reasons, one of the government's main allies, Mohammad Ershad (a former dictator), has threatened to quit the ruling coalition.

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  • Since even more trials will be coming to a conclusion in the coming weeks and months Mr Berlusconi is accused, among other things, of illegally financing a former (Socialist) prime minister, Bettino Craxi, of budget irregularities and of bribing judges in Rome the row is bound to grow still louder.

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  • Georgians blame at least two assassination attempts against former President Eduard Shevardnadze (1992-2003) on a former Georgian security chief, Igor Giorgadze.

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  • Fred Anderson (another former Apple officer), and Roger McNamee (a Silicon Valley investor) will also join the board.

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  • The No. 2 finisher, Westfield's Mr. Lowy (a former No. 1), climbed from third.

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  • When Michel was Minority Leader, he worked alongside staunch Democrats Tip O'Neill and Tom Foley (each a former House Speaker).

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  • The opening was delayed by several years, during which time the developers (including a former ForbesLife publisher) invested in training.

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  • Viktor Chernomyrdin, the new Russian ambassador to Ukraine (and a former prime minister), is referred to, only half-jokingly, as Mr Putin's viceroy in Kiev.

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  • This article rings very true as a former partner (employee).

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  • No northern political leader, writes Mr Khalid (himself a former foreign minister), has had the courage to accept responsibility for the carnage and destruction that the north's policies have wrought.

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  • Between the end of 1968 and September 1970, the assets of America's top 28 hedge funds dropped by two-thirds, according to Sebastian Mallaby, an author (and a former Economist journalist).

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  • And they also organize their colleagues to contribute to charities like Room to Read that helps build libraries and schools around the world, founded by John Wood, a former Microsoft (MSFT) executive.

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  • One of the regime's more dependable Palestinian allies, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command headed by Ahmad Jibril (a former Syrian army officer), is reported to have joined the fray on the government side.

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  • They came from the same college (Alabama) with running backs catching the ball out of the backfield, coached by a former pro coach (Nick Saban), and the same forecast for being tough enough to beat the abysmal odds of injury over a pro career.

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  • Corbett soon landed a job with Gerald Perritt, a former college professor (and, briefly, a FORBES columnist) who started the money management firm in 1983.

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  • The rules say the next appointee must be a CPA. Sources tell me that the finalists for the open spot include two former female PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) professionals including a trade group leader, a female career Washington DC insider, and a male academic who has been a long and strong investor advocate.

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  • In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.

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  • But this summer Tehran is expected to start rationing those supplies, providing a jolt to an already restive and young population, says Fereidun Fesharaki, a former energy official (pre-1979) who now runs Facts, an energy consultancy, and is a senior fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

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  • Falter, Major General, U.S. Army (Ret.), former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic Leon A. Edney, Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former Acting Secretary of the Air Force Tidal W. McCoy, and Andrew C.

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