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...White House is looking for at least one new member of its economic team who can speak the language of the financial markets and calm them when necessary. "The model is Bob Rubin," said a White House insider of the Goldman, Sachs co-chairman, who headed the National Economic Council (NEC) and then the Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration. Bush advisers say Stephen Friedman, who co-chaired Goldman at Rubin's side, is being courted heavily for the NEC job. But candidates for other spots on the economic team have also been sought among nonfinancial companies. Though Bush recognizes...
...police headquarters. The police fired warning shots in the air, then apparently aimed lower, killing a 14-year-old and fatally wounding an 18-year-old. The mob erupted in fury. President Xanana Gusmao, widely revered for his role in bringing freedom to East Timor, tried in vain to calm the enraged youths. They smashed windows in the parliamentary offices, looted a hotel, destroyed an Australian-owned supermarket that had been among the first foreign businesses to open in independent East Timor and torched several other buildings, including two houses belonging to the family of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri...
Kirby also said the calm state of U.S.-Chinese relations make the present moment an ideal time to analyze the situation...
...couldn’t really stop her today,” Peljto said. “She’s very calm. She knows what she’s doing at all times...
...last municipal elections in October 2000. Abou Jahjah gives Belgium's Muslims a radical voice to counter the Blok. He showed up at the scene of Achrak's murder barely 30 minutes after the crime; what happened next is in dispute. Abou Jahjah claims he tried to calm angry Muslims, who rioted for two nights. The police arrested him, saying he was responsible for the fighting, but an Antwerp court ruled last week that there was insufficient evidence to hold him. Two days after his release, Abou Jahjah relaxes in the downtown Antwerp apartment of his lieutenant, 26-year...