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...article in Time Magazine about his ascent to the top of the Treasury reported that Summers, who had “made great strides in improving his people skills, has a reputation for brilliance, if not tact.” The story then quoted a famous column by Wall Street Journal commentator Paul Gigot, in which he wrote that “Larry Summers is to humility what Madonna is to chastity...
...government and a share of oil revenues from the south. "The more they participate in the central government, the less fear they'll have that they're going to be attacked," says Phebe Marr, an Iraq expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Some Iraqis hope that Talabani's ascent to the presidency will be seen as an important first step toward Kurds and Arabs living peacefully with each other. "For years, we've been told that Kurds are Iraqis and not a separate people," says Hoshyar Zebari, a Kurd who is Iraq's interim Foreign Minister. "Well, this...
...long-time Sandy Weill sidekick, Chuck Prince might have got a chance to run Citigroup in any event. But a progression of Citi scandals that began in the dotcom-bubble years with shady Enron dealings and stock touting for troubled telecoms quickened this lawyer's ascent. Prince, 54, landed the CEO job little more than a year ago. Since then, old improprieties have continued to surface, posing new p.r. nightmares-- including Citi's private-banking operation being banned from Japan just a few months ago for failing to guard against money laundering, among other things. To atone, Prince bowed deeply...
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...knee-jarring scramble down to where the Grose River jostles between boulders, and, just as Caley's men did with homemade twine, the team has to lower its packs on rope where the rock face is steepest. The cool Grose waters provide only short relief before a lung-bursting ascent to the top, where Caley and his men tried to quench their burning thirst with native currants...