The advisors, including outgoing National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers, energy policy czar Carol Browner, and V.

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The prospect of a policy czar overriding them, observers note, might discourage good candidates for some of the executive Cabinet positions.

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Hence the urgency with which Macedonian politicians began talks on their country's future on April 2nd, under the watchful eyes of Xavier Solana, the European Union foreign-policy czar.

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