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From Zer-Who? to Who Knew?
Outgoing Director Rides Tide of Warm Feelings |
By Rich McManus |
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Dr. Elias Zerhouni has last word at his farewell. |
There probably isn’t a job anywhere in the world that Dr. Elias Zerhouni could not win if he simply took to his next job interview a videotape of the Farewell Celebration
that took place in his honor Oct. 30 in a packed Masur Auditorium. After 115 minutes of tributes from colleagues, Congress, interest groups and the administration,
perhaps the biggest challenge of his 6½-year directorship was emerging from the hall with his humility intact.
Even the ambassadors of Algeria, where he grew up, and Morocco, from which his family originated, showed up to honor a man whose character—even more than his scientific and managerial acumen—stood out as his most prominent attribute.
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