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...difficult. We avoided much of this mess, and we've tried to limit our exposure to the banks. We've dipped our toe in the water a few times now. USBancorp, I think, will be a survivor and will thrive. But we've got quarters of difficulty. The hardest part of this is figuring out when people will start looking beyond the near-term. We've tried to take small steps into the riskier stuff. We ended up buying Bank of America again, since that worked out so well for us last year, but a smaller piece. The round-trip...
...growing rumblings of both parties in the Senate, majority leader Harry Reid on Wednesday reiterated his pledge that Obama will have a bill to sign into law by President's Day on Feb. 16. But the question remains: Whose arms will the postpartisan President have to twist the hardest, Republicans' or Democrats...
...White House chief of staff modestly recalled Rumsfeld's statement earlier this week to TIME while rushing between pre-Inaugural events. It's fair to say all of Washington is wondering just how Emanuel is going to fare in what has long been the second hardest job in Washington. Emanuel honed his political skills as a top aide to Bill Clinton in the White House, where he was instrumental in shepherding the North American Free Trade Agreement and welfare reform through Congress. After a stint in investment banking in Chicago, Emanuel returned to Washington as an Illinois Congressman, rose quickly...
...parents were from Jamaica, but Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, was straight outta Brooklyn. In the mid-'90s, when the hottest, hardest rap came from California, Biggie restored some bicoastal equilibrium with his quadruple-platinum CD Ready to Die. After that, the headlines were mostly police-blotter stuff. In 1996 his ex-friend, then rival Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. The following year, when Biggie made an incursion onto L.A. turf to promote his new album, he was shot and killed. (Neither murder was officially solved.) In 2003 Shakur got a zazzy...
...weeks ago, outgoing White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten gathered nearly a dozen former chiefs of staff in his corner West Wing office and held a courtesy orientation session for Rahm Emanuel, the next man to assume the second hardest job in Washington...