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...Geithner's first big day as Treasury Secretary: a speech at 11 outlining the revamped bank bailout that he has redubbed the Financial Stability Plan, then an appearance before the Senate Banking Committee at 2:30 to take questions on the topic...
...right, look center, etc. Sitting in the witness chair before a congressional committee, though, he is brilliant - at least when he's not having to spend all his time apologizing for screwing up his tax returns, as he did during his confirmation hearing last month. Today, before the Senate Banking Committee, he answered the questions he could easily answer with brisk clarity and deflected the ones he couldn't with aplomb. ("I understand what you're asking," he said with the faintest hint of a smile when Montana Democrat Jon Tester wanted to know what was the upper limit...
...conversation with Professor David R. Gergen of the Kennedy School, Krugman said that he disapproved of the latest version of a U.S. bank bailout plan scheduled to be announced today...
...Game, they face tradeoffs. When it comes to choosing between a football game and next semester’s textbooks, there is no contest. Therefore, these peers of ours have to be extra vigilant about collecting their tickets in time since they do not have their parents’ bank account to fall back...
...wing Israelis, this smacks of unforgivable racism. Arabs make up nearly 20% of Israel's population, and they already complain that they are treated as second-class citizens in the Jewish state - or worse, as a fifth column of supporters for armed Palestinian militants in Gaza and the West Bank. Israel's Arab leadership generally opposes the state being defined on Jewish lines, instead demanding that it treat all citizens as equals. For Lieberman, the last straw was the opposition expressed by Israeli Arabs to the military campaign in Gaza. But Hannah Safran, a protester outside a Lieberman rally...