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Geithner, by contrast, always looks freshly pressed, even dapper. He admits he didn't care about economics during his undergraduate days at Dartmouth. "I think I took one course," he says. It is easy, given his relatively young age and his background, to view Geithner as the perpetual understudy to Summers' intellectual alpha dog. But friends of both say that oversimplifies their relationship. "Tim is whip-smart and has never hesitated to disagree with Larry on substantive issues if he felt Larry was wrong," says a former Treasury colleague of theirs. Geithner, moreover, has far better political fingertips...
Against such a background, skeptics are questioning whether the Zeitungszeugen project can succeed in its stated aims. With copies flying off the newsstands, its commercial success looks a little easier to judge...
...thing that will be very familiar to the new First Family is city life. Unlike every other President stretching all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt, Obama has spent his entire life living in urban areas. Some of his supporters believe this background makes him more culturally sophisticated than many of his predecessors (they're relieved he won't call the city "Warshington"), while others say it allows him to better understand multicultural, 21st century America. But the fact that Obama has spent weekends walking down the street to the barbershop instead of riding a 4x4 across a ranch...
There is little doubt that Obama's city background has shaped his policy priorities. Of all the candidates in the 2008 primaries, says Glaeser, "Obama was clearly focused on issues of the city, like the Harlem Children's Zone," a nonprofit antipoverty effort that Obama hopes to replicate in 20 cities across the country. When Obama got involved with civil liberties issues as a state legislator, it was to spearhead a law requiring the videotaping of all confessions and interrogations in capital cases, which disproportionately involve urban defendants in Illinois...
...Religion and politics will never go together," says Emad al-Azzawi, a mobile-phone vendor in Hurriya district who says he too would vote for al-Maliki's Dawa Islamic Party, despite its predominant Shi'ite background. Indeed, al-Maliki has also found friends in a host of new tribe-based parties that have grown out of Anbar's largely Sunni Awakening movement. (See pictures of a summit of Anbar's sheiks...