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...someone who has demonstrated the capacity to overcome barriers and create solutions in a number of settings,” said Robert H. Mnookin ’64, Law School professor and chair of the Program on Negotiation. “We thought that Christo and Jeanne-Claude had done this a number of times.” The artists have enjoyed widespread popularity and even support from New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg when working on “The Gates.” But not all communities initially appreciated their proposals, which often asked for permission...
...just because he pushes around foreign governments and big bankers in his spare time, or that he has pictures of himself handling snakes decorating his office. The key reason he thinks he'll win this encounter with Congress is that this is one deal that really must get done. Last Thursday the great American credit panic of 2008 was on the verge of halting the country's financial circulatory system. Anyone with money to lend was hoarding it and big institutions were starting a run on the money market funds that hold the hard-earned savings of millions of Americans...
...Will all of the federal wheeling and dealing come with transparency and oversight? Maybe. The bailout is being undertaken by the U.S. Treasury, which means it can't be hidden away or done "off the books" in an effort to minimize its apparent scope. The Treasury will consult with experts to figure out "mechanisms for buying assets and from whom to buy," Paulson said Tuesday. "We do not know exactly what the best design is." But it's leaning toward conducting "reverse auctions" in which the Treasury would, for example, buy $1 billion in bad mortgages from whichever institution would...
...never is, but it's got to be sufficient to let us do the job." And Paulson thinks he'll get it soon. "We're right in the period where the sausage is being made," he says, but "I clearly believe we're going to get it done this week. We need to get it done this week...
...going to get this done this week? And how clean is this going to look...