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Seventeen magazine named Sabrina Weill editor in chief yesterday, filling a post vacant since August.

The new defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, was also filling a post he had held under Mr. Ford.

He succeeds Chris Mendola, who becomes chairman, filling a post that had been vacant since Alex Melvin died in August.

Gap Inc. named an advertising executive, Jeff Jones, head of marketing for its Gap stores, filling a post that has been vacant for more than a year.

Coca-Cola named Joseph V. Tripodi its chief marketing and commercial officer yesterday, filling a post that has been vacant for months.

Jay Russell, managing group creative director, was named executive creative director, filling a post that had been vacant since early last year.

There are also several promotions and shifts among senior managers, as well as plans to fill a post that has been long vacant, that of global creative officer.

The S.E.C. chairman, William H. Donaldson, turned to Mr. Nicolaisen, a 36-year industry insider, to fill a post that had been vacant since November.

The United States, the official said, still has no plans to send an ambassador to Damascus to fill a post that has been vacant since 2005.

The appointment would fill a post created by an executive order signed by President Bill Clinton in his final days in office.

Ms. Dublon, 45, has been an executive vice president and treasurer, and fills a post that has been vacant for about a year.