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  • 'Surge' Architect Rejects 'War Czar' Job yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '\'Surge\' Architect Rejects \'War Czar\ 'Job'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The widespread doubts within U.S. military and intelligence circles that George W. Bush\'s Iraq War "surge" can succeed were underscored when one of the plan\'s architects, retired Army Gen. Jack Keane, was one of three generals to rebuff a White House offer of a new job dubbed "war czar."'

    'Surge' Architect Rejects 'War Czar' Job 2007

  • How About A 'Peace Czar' Instead? yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'How About A \'Peace Czar\' Instead? '

    How About A 'Peace Czar' Instead? 2007

  • HPFacebookVoteV2. init (215982, 'Sarah Palin Named Nation\'s First Humor Czar', 'WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a hastily called press conference, Sarah Palin - the Governor of Alaska and a key to Republican success in the 2008 Presidential election -- was today named as the United State\'s first \ "Humor Czar\"; a newly created position in The Department Of Homeland Security.

    Lee Stranahan: Sarah Palin Named Nation's First Humor Czar 2009

  • HPFacebookVoteV2. init (215982, 'Sarah Palin Named Nation\'s First Humor Czar', 'WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a hastily called press conference, Sarah Palin - the Governor of Alaska and a key to Republican success in the 2008 Presidential election -- was today named as the United State\'s first \ "Humor Czar\"; a newly created position in The Department Of Homeland Security.

    Lee Stranahan: Sarah Palin Named Nation's First Humor Czar 2009

  • Around the same time, the rulers of Russia adopted the title Czar, meaning Caesar or Emperor, and Moscow began to be referred to as 'the Third Rome', after Constantinople was the second.

    Dark Roasted Blend 2009

  • So, which type of man does the title Czar represent, was he a Saint or a devil?

    Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy 2009

  • Originally, the title Czar (derived from Caesar) meant Emperor in the European medieval sense of the term, that is, a ruler who claims the same rank as a Roman emperor, with the approval of another emperor or a supreme ecclesiastical official (the Pope or the Ecumenical Patriarch).

    Common Folk Using Common Sense 2009

  • Although the Czar is at the head of the Ballet Institute, he sees the children only at a distance, at festivals and at special entertainments.

    Katrinka: The Story of a Russian Child 1915

  • I think the Drug Czar is cabinet rank and has served all 8.

    Matthew Yglesias » Trivia Question 2009

  • But Science Czar is just an example mind you, I guess a simplified version of it would be to say “let the people and congress elect our “czars” instead of leaving the decision up to one man.”

    Vennbama | My[confined]Space 2009

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