The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d ' Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.

The current President of Burundi is Pierre Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader of the Hutu National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy who was elected unopposed as the new President of Burundi by the parliament on 19 August 2005.

David Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party.

The current party leader is Hu Jintao, who holds the title of General Secretary of the Central Committee.

It was given its current name by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933 – 1934.

* Charles Kennedy-Former leader of the Liberal Democrat party and current Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Ross, Skye and Lochaber.

He retired as the career home run leader for catchers, a record which stood until surpassed by Carlton Fisk and the current record holder, Mike Piazza.

Leszek Cezary Miller ( born 3 July 1946 in Żyrardów ) is a Polish central-left-wing politician, and current leader of the Democratic Left Alliance.

Dick Cole is the current leader.

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A new Prime Minister and the fact that Kinnock was now current leader of a major party reduced the impact of calls for " Time for a Change ".

Some New Religious Movements, especially those that have disassociated themselves from the Catholic Church yet retain a Catholic hierarchical framework, will use the designation " pope " for a movement's founder or current leader.

Julia Gillard is the current Prime Minister, leader of the Australian Labor Party, and the first female Prime Minister of Australia.

79 Group members including current leader, Alex Salmond, were expelled from the party.

The current leader of the Wanniyala-Aetto community is Uru Warige Wanniya.

The original X-Men disassociated with the current team because Professor X had placed their old nemesis, Magneto, as its leader.

In more recent times, the University boasts one of Europe's largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians, including former First Minister Donald Dewar, fomer leader of the Liberal Democrats and current Rector of the University Charles Kennedy, Liam Fox, John Smith, Sir Menzies Campbell and current Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

In politics, a de facto leader of a country or region is one who has assumed authority, regardless of whether by lawful, constitutional, or legitimate means ; very frequently, the term is reserved for those whose power is thought by some faction to be held by unlawful, unconstitutional, or otherwise illegitimate means, often because it had deposed a previous leader or undermined the rule of a current one.

Previous Speakers have been minority leaders ( when the majority party changes, as they are already the House party leader, and as the minority leader is usually their party's nominee for speaker ), or majority leaders ( upon departure of the current speaker in the majority party ), assuming that the party leadership hierarchy is followed.

Mark Rutte, current party leader since 2006 and Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 2010.

Perhaps the most widely visible Buddhist leader in the world is Tenzin Gyatso, the current Dalai Lama, who first visited the United States in 1979.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

Kamitatu has since left both the MLC and the Parliament to create his own party, and ally with current President Joseph Kabila.

The parliamentary party system is dominated by the People's Rally for Progress and the current President is Ismail Omar Guelleh.

The current official position of the party is that the " Republic of China ( Taiwan )" is an independent and sovereign country whose territory consists of Taiwan and its surrounding smaller islands and whose sovereignty derives only from the ROC citizens living in Taiwan ( similar philosophy of self-determination ), based on the " Resolution on Taiwan's Future " in 1999.

The left wing republican party Sinn Féin is a party which opposes the current structure of the European Union and the direction it is moving in.

The party supports a bracket income tax system, as opposed to the current ' linear ' system, and, in the long-term a flat tax.

* Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), El Salvador-became a political party and have current presidency

The party became the Green Alliance in 1983 and in 1987 was renamed to its current title in English.

The current president of the government elected by the Congress is Harold Martin, from the loyalist ( i. e. anti-independence ) " Future Together " party ( l ' Avenir Ensemble ), which toppled the long-time ruling Rally for Caledonia in the Republic ( RPCR ) in May 2004.

It is also customary for political party members to form wings for current or prospective party members, most of which fall into the following two categories:

The current Premier is Campbell Newman of the LNP, who was sworn in as Premier on 26 March 2012, following a massive win by his party in the 2012 state election.

Wanting to find one party at fault in a conflict where all parties have engaged in positive and negative actions, this small group believes that Israel is solely to blame for the current conflict.

The FARC-EP says it will continue its armed struggle because it perceives the current Colombian government as an enemy because of historical politically motivated violence against its members and supporters including members of the Patriotic Union, a FARC-EP-created political party.

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, a Marxist-Leninist political party, founded by Rohana Wijeweera in 1965, serves as the 3rd force in the current political context.

Many SNP members are republicans, however, and both the party student and youth wings are expressly so. However, the current stance of the SNP is that an independent Scotland would retain the monarchy which it currently has as part of the United Kingdom.

This grouping of " neo-fundamentalists " have their roots within the camp of the former high-profile Labour Party MP Jim Sillars who left Labour to form the short-lived Scottish Labour Party in 1976 ( the party had no connection with the UK Labour Party or the current Scottish Labour group in the Scottish Parliament ).

He is the current Chairman of the Kadima Party, which is the largest party by seats in the current Knesset.

* 1953 – Ben Bernanke, American economist and current United States Chairman of the Federal Reserve

The current mayor is Luizianne Lins a former academic at the local Federal University of Ceará and well known feminist.

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The current Federal Government of Somalia that succeeded the Transitional Federal Government is approved by the Arab League ( AL ), Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ), the African Union ( AU ) and Intergovernmental Authority on Development ( IGAD ).

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While there is some public perception that military-style semi-automatic rifles often see criminal use, a 2001 Justice Department study revealed that fewer than 2 % of State and Federal inmates used, carried, or possessed a military-style semi-automatic gun or a fully automatic gun during their current offense.

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In signing the law, Bush expressed concerns about the constitutionality of parts of the legislation but concluded, " I believe that this legislation, although far from perfect, will improve the current financing system for Federal campaigns … Taken as a whole, this bill improves the current system of financing for Federal campaigns, and therefore I have signed it into law.

Ben Bernanke, Princeton professor and current chairman of the US Federal Reserve, has argued that monetary policy could respond to zero interest rate conditions by direct expansion of the money supply.

In 1853, a Federal Constitution was enacted ( the current Constitution of Argentina, through amendments ) and Urquiza was elected President of the Argentine Confederation.

Furthermore, the executive branch of the Federal government could obtain legal strikebreaking injunctions if an impending or current strike imperiled the national health or safety, a test that has been interpreted broadly by the courts.

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

The Court has had three Chief Justices to date, Elizabeth Evatt AC, Alastair Nicholson and Diana Bryant QC ( Formerly Chief Federal Magistrate, appointed to current role in 2004 The Deputy Chief Justice is John Faulks ( appointed as a Judge in 1994 and to his current position in 2004 ).

" Her submission favoured combining the current family law functions of the Federal Magistrates Court with the Family Court of Australia under a new Court, with a new name.

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At one time Del Rio was in the running to become the home of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center for agents of the U. S. Border Patrol and Federal Air Marshal Service but lost to the current site in Artesia, New Mexico.