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...Peru Riots in the Amazon Dozens were killed in Peru's Bagua province as police clashed with indigenous groups incensed by energy developments on their ancestral land. After months of protests, the riots erupted when policemen attempted to clear thousands of demonstrators from a highway. Peru's Congress has moved to suspend further developments...
...part of her new job, this well-mannered career academic has to bully some of the world's most powerful men. Shortly after Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act last October, Warren was appointed by Senate Democrats to do one of the most difficult, or perhaps impossible, jobs in Washington: chairing a bipartisan panel tasked with scrutinizing how the Treasury Department - first George W. Bush's, now Barack Obama's - is spending the $700 billion in federal money intended in large part to shore up failing banks. The role has Warren monitoring the decisions of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...
When asked whether it was even possible to determine what happened to all the money Congress rushed last fall to financial institutions, she said, "It's a wonderful irony, isn't it? Once Paulson gave this money away on a no-strings basis, it became effectively impossible to trace it." But, she says, it won't happen again: "It's a $300 billion mistake that we will not repeat...
...Washington debates how to reshape the regulatory system to prevent economic shocks in the future, Warren hopes to see some of her ideas translate into policy changes. And she vows to continue as long as Congress will have her. "I'm not hanging on to this job. I'm here at the pleasure of the Senate that appointed me," she says. "But having said that, I'm not looking over my shoulder. I'm here to do what I think is right...
...mission he was asked to do. "Change is hard" has remained a frequent refrain of his. Chosen to lead the Defense Department as the agent of change, Rumsfeld said he expected that he would come under attack. "People in uniform resisted, and people in civilian clothes resisted; the Congress resisted," he recounted in an interview. "They don't call it the Iron Triangle for nothing, between the permanent bureaucracy and the defense contractors and the Congress. They're permanent, and the people coming in are temporary. And if you try to change that interaction in the Iron Triangle...