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...increasingly brutal attitude of white settlers towards the Apache: "The civilian scout leader [King] Woolsey, for example, was blunt in his embrace of such tactics. 'As there has been a great deal said about my killing women and children,' he wrote to the territory's military authorities, 'I will state to you that we killed in this Scout 22 Bucks 5 women & 3 children. We would have killed more women but [did not]owing to having attacked in the day time when the women were at work gathering Mescal. It sir is next to impossible to prevent killing squaws...
...Geithner also is known for speaking his mind, sometimes forcefully, behind the scenes. In one now famous fight with FDIC chief Sheila Bair the weekend of Oct. 12, 2008, he argued in blunt terms for the need to bolster banks with FDIC guarantees even as Bair was resisting details of a plan. His current job is due in part to his reputation for standing up to powerful people, says Sexton. "[Former Deputy Treasury Secretary] Larry Summers told us that Tim was one of the very few people who, when Larry got on a roll, would sometimes take him up short...
...Summers, said that Summers’ management style was not conducive to a University setting, where there are “lots of big egos” to be massaged.Nurturing was “not Larry’s strength,” Zeckhauser said, and his penchant for blunt criticism did him no favors with the cadre of faculty members who had opposed his presidency from the start.But Summers was able to weather his time in the Clinton administration without instigating conflicts, Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel said. The fact that Summers had trouble leading the University, Frankel...
Even old communist adversaries like Russia and China are on board. Rather than shunning the club of capitalists, China is seeking more power within it, especially at institutions like the International Monetary Fund, where it would like a greater say in macroeconomic lending policies. And Russia is blunt in its embrace of the system it once resisted. "It's not a struggle between ideologies," says one Kremlin official. "The struggle of ideologies is a thing of the past...
...that will - like coordinating accounting standards, increasing transparency and launching coordinated economic stimulus programs. Whether or not they manage that remains up in the air; the conference is more likely to produce a predictable statement of principles rather than any new concrete actions. But if they do manage to blunt the effects of the crisis, it will be capitalism that saves Bush, not the other way around...