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...While Summers was named “worst crossover,” the current secretary of the Treasury nabbed the title of “best crossover.” Henry M. Paulson left his job as CEO of Goldman Sachs last spring to take the cabinet-level post. Summers did not return requests for comment yesterday. —Staff writer Madeline W. Lissner can be reached at mlissner@fas.harvard.edu...
...Sachs CEO's China experience and contacts - he had visited no less than 72 times - was touted as a major asset when he was appointed to the job five months ago. Now, he's in Beijing at the head of a high-powered U.S. economic delegation that includes six cabinet ministers, the U.S. Trade Representative and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke - and he's under pressure to deliver. The U.S. urgently needs Beijing to allow its currency to appreciate in value against the dollar, to put a dent in Washington's $200 billion-plus annual trade deficit with China...
...surrealistic," said Jihad Azour, the Minister of Finance, who had spent Saturday night at the Serail as a sign of support for Siniora, who now rarely leaves his government's headquarters. Dressed in a corduroy jacket and black bowling sneakers, he looked less like a member of the cabinet than someone's uncle on a tour. "This government was part of the Resistance. I was part of the Resistance. I kept the government functioning during the war. Each of us felt like we were resisting the Israeli occupation. Then three months afterwards to be treated like a traitor...
...longer the struggle continues, the greater the stakes become. In his speech on Thursday, Nasrallah declared that unless the government resigned soon, Hizballah would demand even greater concessions than just a blocking veto in the cabinet. Nasrallah also threatened an escalation of tactics to include unspecified acts of civil disobedience, which could range from strikes by government employees who support the opposition, shutdowns at the ports and airport, and a walkout by opposition members of parliament...
...only are Arab women largely excluded from political participation - the report notes that most of the handful of Arab women cabinet ministers tend to hold symbolic rather than influential positions - they often suffer domestic violence, including so-called "honor killings," behind a societal cloak of silence. Laws often restrict women's personal liberties, for example by giving them lesser status than their husbands in divorce proceedings, and requiring the permission of a husband or father to work, travel or borrow from a bank...