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...trying to keep the ship in the channel for months. Treasury Secretary Paulson, 62, was one of Wall Street's toughest dealmakers as CEO of Goldman Sachs. Fed chief Bernanke, 54, is a quiet academic who was the chairman of Princeton's economics department and is one of the foremost scholars of the Great Depression and other economic catastrophes. Least known of the three is Geithner, 47, whose years at Treasury in the 1990s and position at the Fed's pivotal New York City office make him the trio's eyes and ears on Wall Street. There is some speculation...
...miles off its shore. Gutierrez asked the audience to make Cuba’s human right violations the center of its attention and linked the country’s longtime and ailing leader Fidel Castro with terrorist groups. “I believe that Fidel Castro is first and foremost anti-American,” Gutierrez said. Gutierrez connected the country’s current poverty with its leaders’ corruption. “The average Cuban makes $20 a month,” he said. “Part of the big problem with Cuba is that...
...author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs and Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman is one of America's foremost authorities on pop culture. The Esquire columnist's first foray into fiction, Downtown Owl, hits stores Sept. 16. Klosterman talked to TIME about shifting to fiction, his best celebrity interviews and why Paris Hilton will one day define this strange...
Anathem By Neal Stephenson; out now What ever happened to the great novel of ideas? It has morphed into science fiction, and Stephenson is its foremost practitioner. Here he imagines a postapocalyptic world where cloistered monks keep the secrets of mathematics safe from the fallen civilization around them...
...competitors were, frankly, uninspiring - the man with the second fastest personal best, after Liu's 12.88 sec., was a Dutchman who had clocked in a relatively leisurely 13.35 sec. This was going to be the moment of glory for a man for whom a Beijing gold medal was the foremost wish among the Chinese people, according to a nationwide poll. A sea of Chinese flags waved. The Bird's Nest stadium thrummed with expectation...