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• n  a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917)
• n  a person having great power

• The czar post has always had opponents, and criticism has swelled along with attention to Obama's appointments.
• Brooks Kraft Corbis for PTI Fortunately, our leaders solved those problems long ago, by boldly appointing czars to clean them up.
• In opting for an advisory panel to help oversee Detroit's restructuring, the President has recognized that Washington's use of czars usually masks a reality of inaction.

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News & Articles

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• US intelligence chief urges guarding data, reassures contractors
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's intelligence czar this week sent a message to tens of thousands of U.S. intelligence community workers, reemphasizing the need to safeguard sensitive data in the wake of a contract employee's leak of highly classified National Security Agency documents, a government source said. The message from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also ...
  June 11, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Rudy Crew Is a Finalist to Lead Medgar Evers College
  Rudy Crew —the high-profile education czar Gov. John Kitzhaber hired last year to implement Oregon's ambitious education reforms—already has his eye on the exit.  Kitzhaber hired Crew in 2012 to be the state's first ever chief education officer. Crew's three-year contract pays him $280,000 annually.  But last week, the City University of New York, which serves 269,000 students, reported that ...
  June 10, 2013 - Willamette Week
• Rudy Crew Is a Finalist to Lead Medgar Evers College: Updated
  Rudy Crew —the high-profile education czar Gov. John Kitzhaber hired last year to implement Oregon's ambitious education reforms—already has his eye on the exit.  Kitzhaber hired Crew in 2012 to be the state's first ever chief education officer. Crew's three-year contract pays him $280,000 annually.  But last week, the City University of New York, which serves 269,000 students, reported that ...
  June 10, 2013 - Willamette Week

Quotes

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• Ayman al-Zawahri in Forbes
  The czar of Washington invited 16 Arab countries ...... to sit in one room, at one table with the Israelis,al-Zawahri said, adding that the conference "witnessed the betrayal deals to sell Palestine."
• Gleb Pavlovsky in Chicago Tribune
  The move means that Putin's successor "will not be a czar," Kremlin-connected analyst Gleb Pavlovsky said on Ekho Moskvy radio. "There will be a new center of influence outside the Kremlin."
• Garry Kasparov in eTaiwan News
  This election is not Nemtsov against Pakhomov, it's Nemtsov vs. Putin,Kasparov told The Associated Press. "Sochi is essentially Putin's capital. It's not just any city, it's his project, just as St. Petersburg was for Czar Peter the...