I don't know about you, but I can't think of a more stunning credential for the person charged with managing the efforts of the United States Commission on Civil Rights then a good solid tenure at The Family Research Council.
The moral landscape isn't nihilistic — his characters are afforded glimpses of higher values and better impulses, but they can't quite manage the effort to get there.
In fact, the group has already contracted a public relations firm, Alexander Ogilvy, part of the Ogilvy Public Relations unit of the WPP Group, to manage the effort.
As he says, "To mount a campaign to convert 6 billion people to love which is essentially the role of charity takes a lot of money…Raise the capital to promote the idea by offering a return on investment, hire the best people to manage the effort, and run the advertising to spread the word.
WASHINGTON – The Obama administration did not look far for someone to lead the so-called tech surge to fix its troubled health insurance Web site: Jeffrey D. Zients, a management trouble-shooter already in line to take over as the chief White House economic adviser on Jan . 1 until then will manage the effort to resolve the technical failures.
In 1986 he was appointed the chief of staff to the high commissioner for refugees and stayed in headquarters five years before heading to Cambodia in 1991 to help manage the effort to repatriate hundreds of Cambodian refugees from camps on the Thai border.
Understanding how a set of genes is regulated during development of an organism, or during disease, "will revolutionize our understanding of how cells function," says Michael Rudnicki, senior scientist at the Ottawa Health Research Institute, who is chairing a steering committee that will manage the effort.
A spokesperson for the presidential inauguration committee, which manages the effort, declined to comment on the pace of fundraising so far.
