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...Then it came time for Dick Cheney, who like Rumsfeld had served more than three decades ago as Gerald Ford's chief of staff, to offer his thoughts. Sitting at the end of the table, the 67-year-old Wyoming native looked at the august group and said in his usually dry style, "Above all else, control your Vice President." (See America's worst Vice Presidents...
...final smirk-riddled press conference by fails to win over critics of • history of response to Katrina of is brazenly rewritten by • Larry King is told by how much being called a racist hurt the feelings of • question about possible regret by for ignoring August 6, 2001, CIA briefing memo is not asked by any reporters at last press conference...
...weekend travel at select Hilton properties around the world: Stay in London for just $81 per night, or Paris for $120 per night. Enjoy a few extra perks like 6 p.m. checkout and no charge for kids' stays or meals. Book between now and Jan. 31 for travel through August...
Every year at the end of August, the high priests of the U.S. financial system - the board of governors and staff of the Federal Reserve - gather at a remote resort high in the mountains near Jackson Hole, Wyo., and there, amid the Tetons, listen to lectures by invited economists on a variety of topics, hoping the fresh air and proximity to genuine cowboy bars might lead to clear thinking and sound economic policy...
...good time is usually had by all - except when the global financial markets are sending out warnings of extreme stress to come. By August 2007, the storm known as the subprime crisis had been gathering for much of the year, and inside the Fed, Timothy F. Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and a vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (which sets interest-rate policy), had quietly been raising red flags among his colleagues. Earlier that month, the European Central Bank had startled traders by pumping close to 100 billion euros into the short-term...