But Nye says the choices made by Mikhail Gorbachev following his 1985 appointment as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party hastened the collapse.

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Keith Alexander, to the rank of General and appointment as the first commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, which by most accounts will have the mission of not only defending U.S. military networks, but also conducting offensive cyberwar operations.

FORBES: General Alexander's Confirmation And The Failure Of Cyberwar Transparency

Care is taken not to give wife a general power of appointment over the credit shelter trust.

FORBES: The Unified Credit Freeze, Not the Philly Freeze

Despite the attorney-general's appointment of a respected ex-senator from Missouri, John Danforth, to investigate Waco, Republicans in Congress still want to conduct their own inquiry.

ECONOMIST: The Waco investigation