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That Prince is a lawyer who has functioned as Weill's Mr. Fix-It says a lot about financial institutions these days. Citi is still stinging from a string of ethical lapses related to its financing of Enron and to the tainted stock research of former telecom analyst Jack Grubman that helped feed the stock-market bubble. There's also plenty of skepticism, even inside the firm, that Prince is anything more than a seat warmer to get through this turbulent period. A quiet man and a consummate insider, Prince also faces a personal challenge: he will have to step...
...next. Here in Tacony, however, the details matter because this neighborhood is trying to reclaim its “historic” past-trying to clutch onto its former industrial grandeur. And this legacy remains at the center of Lou’s and others’ plans to fix Tacony...
Three months after the fall of Baghdad, a grim fact of life for Bremer as well as his 600-member civilian staff and the 146,000 American soldiers is that they are still struggling to police Iraq's streets, restore electricity, fix the economy, rebuild schools, monitor local elections and nudge the country toward democracy--all while waging a counterinsurgency campaign against an increasingly brazen assortment of militants who have killed more than 30 U.S. and British soldiers in the past two months. It's not going well. In Baghdad recent attacks on infrastructure targets left the power and water...
...zone--pinstripe suit, red tie, white pocket square, combat boots--was keen to emphasize the coalition's successes but seemed all too aware of growing Iraqi impatience. "Saddam took 35 years to run the place down, and it's not going to take 35 days to fix it. People need to be patient. And I know that's hard when the temperature's 124 and the electricity goes off. But that's the message, and that's the only message there...
...Bremer fix it? During his interview with TIME, Bremer insisted that his team had achieved "quite a lot of progress" on its three main priorities: restoring law and order, reviving the economy and moving toward the establishment of a new Iraqi government. Operations chief Bearpark says, "I've seen the systems be put in place here faster than anywhere I've worked. What we have in Iraq after 12 weeks wasn't in place in six to 12 months in Bosnia and Kosovo." Bremer says people will begin to realize the promise of a brighter future in coming months...