Word: feds
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...show Green Leaf, whose platform calls for the legalization of marijuana and which got only 34,000 votes in the last election, netting at least two seats. "Likud is corrupt and so is Labor," says Dan Goldenblatt, Green Leaf's deputy leader. "People are supporting us because they're fed up." An even bigger winner is the centrist Shinui Party. Ardently anti-religious and financially clean, Shinui is set to become the third-biggest party in the Knesset, which might force Sharon to become the first Likud leader to form a coalition without the religious parties...
...Wall Street savant, similar to Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, on his economic team. Instead he made Alcoa CEO Paul O'Neill, who shared Bush's negative views of Wall Street, his secretary of the Treasury. As his national economic adviser Bush chose Larry Lindsey, an economist and former Fed governor who was so suspicious of the markets that he refused to invest his own money in them. O'Neill and Lindsey are now gone, and in Lindsey's place is former Goldman Sachs co-chairman Steve Friedman, the kind of Wall Street sharpie Bush once loathed...
...Philippine Veterans Hospital awaiting trial.) "Since I am among the principal figures in the divisive national events of the last two or three years," she said, "my political efforts can only result in never-ending divisiveness." Her husband, José Miguel Arroyo, explained the decision more colorfully: "She got fed up with all these constant threats," he told reporters. "Now she can tell these people, 'F___ you, I will do what is right for the people...
...Harvard turned out of necessity to Patrick Harvey, the Crimson’s default backup at the point, to direct the offense. The senior was up to the task, hitting four straight free throws to open Harvard’s scoring in the final five minutes. Moments later, he fed captain Brady Merchant for a baseline three-pointer at the 3:30 mark that made it a one-possession game for the first time since the first half...
...instructed the top lawyers of five of the major banks to come to his office. When they arrived, he lit into them. (One CEO was also present, Morgan Stanley's Philip Purcell.) "Spitzer was harsh, irate, yelling at times," one of the lawyers told TIME. Spitzer said he was fed up with their haggling, that they should be ashamed of what they had done to investors, that they were acting "like children in a sand box." He told them to settle at once or he would start bringing cases. At the end, he said, "Any questions?" The group was silent...