A prosecutor for the last eight years, Mr. Barofsky runs an eight-member division investigating mortgage fraud, predatory lending and deceptive foreclosure scams.
Championed by the state's Republican House speaker, Dean Cannon, and approved by his chamber, the plan called for expanding the Supreme Court from seven to 10 justices, and splitting the bench into two separate five-member divisions for criminal and civil cases.
From 1868 it returned two MPs to the House of Commons until the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, when the constituency was split into three single-member divisions: Salford North, Salford South and Salford West.
The City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, announced yesterday the appointment of Rodney S. Capel, formerly the executive director of the State Democratic Committee, as a deputy chief of staff, overseeing the Council's member services division and its state and federal legislative efforts.
* Having previously served as a faculty member, a division chair, and an academic administrator, Dr. Trower is currently a researcher at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
He has built a 600-member intelligence division, attracted former Central Intelligence Agency officials and scholars in residence, and invested in computers and data mining.
The department is "not here to provide toys for the boys," he said, adding that career opportunities in the department include a 40-member detective division, a motorcycle division, street-crime and vice units.
The move by Ehud Barak, Labor's leader and the current defense minister, to join the coalition has driven a wedge between party members, a division made clear during a stormy convention on Tuesday.
While he gave no timetable, he and aides said the government intended, eventually, to reduce forces there to a 15,000-member army division and 7,000 troops from the Interior Ministry.
