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...Fuld is done with the grueling job of trying to stave off financial crisis. Not so for regulators, of course. It's difficult to imagine the pressure and stress. Key players such as Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and New York Fed chief Tim Geithner have been working around the clock for weeks now, putting out fire after fire. Besides having to comprehend and solve the mind-bending financial woes of some of the world's biggest companies, they are also briefing and seeking counsel from CEOs of the surviving companies, never mind President George W. Bush and the two presidential...
...tough enough for the job, even if he did emerge from the rough-and-tumble of Chicago politics, even if he did outfox the Clinton machine, even if he is the first black man to win a party nomination. They worry that he's trying to run out the clock, as if the disasters caused by eight years of supply-side economics and neoconservative geopolitics were so obvious that he could simply coast to victory on a massive get-out-the-vote operation and the collective wisdom of the American people. But many Americans don't know much about John...
...sitting alone in a room with a clock, turning on a tape recorder, and starting to speak into it. Speak about anything you want - with the proviso that your topic, and your opinions on it, must be of interest to some group of strangers who you imagine will be listening to the tape. Naturally, in order to be even minimally interesting, your remarks should be intelligible and their reasoning sequential - a listener will have to be able to follow the logic of what you're saying - which means that you will have to know enough about your topic to organize...
...that if Palin truly stands for transparency, then she should tell her intensely loyal staffers they have to testify, or else. So far, there's no sign that she'll do that. In fact, Palin's recent moves suggest that she is hoping to run out the clock so that no report can be issued before Nov. 4. According to a Bloomberg News story, Alaska senior assistant attorney general Michael Barnhill has threatened to try to quash any such subpoenas, citing "a clause in the state's constitution that protects individual reputations from McCarthy-like smear tactics...
...questioner's "slogan," but told him to check his math. "I always thought minority is less than 50 percent," he said. "That's not the case at all." Next, someone cited French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran's statement that the Pope would come to Paris to "set the clock straight" on French Catholicism. Vingt-Trois cocked his head, and said such words don't correspond to "Benedict's style." Finally, a questioner declared that the French Church was the Grande Malade (the Sick Lady) of worldwide Catholicism. An exasperated Vingt-Trois finally gave a bit of ground. "Our Church...