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...York City and Washington is all about. There are major quality issues with our nation's flagship product. The authorities have acknowledged the problem--"This is a humbling, humbling time for the United States of America" is how Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put it in one TV interview. So now Paulson & Co. are recalling defective financial products en masse, slapping GUARANTEED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT labels on some of them and replacing others outright with U.S. treasuries...
...Paulson-Bernanke bailout have demanded to rewrite the plan before approving it, clamoring for aid to struggling homeowners, limits on executive pay at firms getting federal help, perhaps even requiring Treasury to get an equity stake in a firm in exchange for its subpar assets. In the interview with Time on Sept. 24, Paulson said, "I believe that we're going to get a bill that works and a clean bill. It certainly won't be exactly what we asked for--it never is--but it's got to be sufficient...
...requests for transportation funding for extraordinary travel by student organizations. The new fund, she said, will be more efficient than previous one-off grants. As with the UC’s standard student group grants, organizations will apply for Student Life grants using the Common Grant Application and then interview with the Council’s Finance Committee, which will make a recommendation to the entire UC. The Council estimated that there will be a funding cap of approximately $2,000 per grant, which can be used to cover transportation costs only. The Council will grant around...
...Charles Gibson that his running mate, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, had foreign policy experience on the grounds that “Alaska is right next to Russia.” Governor Palin was given the opportunity to exhibit her Russia expertise last week during her first major interview, also with Mr. Gibson, since being tagged as McCain’s running mate. Although much attention remains devoted to the two wars launched by the Bush administration in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia has emerged this summer as a major foreign policy issue this election season...
...Still, the McCain-Palin ticket has used this conflict to step up its vitriolic rhetoric. Mr. McCain wants to expel Russia from the G8 and reconsider further WTO accession talks. And both he and Ms. Palin are committed to expanding NATO to include Georgia and Ukraine. In her interview, Palin stated that the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine “have showed us that those democratic nations, I believe, should be in NATO...