The election of Mr. Mwanawasa, left, who appointed his cabinet on Monday, was marred by charges of vote rigging.
Before the visitors left, Chávez appointed Maduro the leader of his group, and gave him a code name: Verde.
Mr. Saakashvili, left, also appointed a new prime minister, Lado Gurgenidze, chief of the private Bank of Georgia, to replace Zurab Nogaideli.
Singing "We Shall Overcome," the protesters criticized what they called the racist policies of Mayor John Spencer, left, who appointed the school board that fired Dr. Hornsby on Friday.
An army colonel, Muhammadu Saad Abubakar III, left, was appointed the new Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria's estimated 70 million Muslims.
"Why don't funds have to disclose the monthly cost?" It is bad news for the fund industry that that question is being raised by Mr. Wallman, a man so persistent that he is still pushing for stocks to be traded in decimals instead of fractions two and a half years after he left his appointed position on the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Following Republican victories in Ohio statewide elections in 1994, Cordray left his appointed position and entered the private practice of law.
After he leaves, the company will appoint a new independent chairman.
"At this rate we will have no officers left to appoint to command positions," he said last month.
At this rate we will have no officers left to appoint to command positions," he complained in a recent interview.
