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Another myth is that the developed world already gives plenty of aid to the world's poor. Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill expressed a common frustration when he remarked about aid for Africa: "We've spent trillions of dollars on these problems and we have damn near nothing to show for it." O'Neill was no foe of foreign aid. Indeed, he wanted to fix the system so that more U.S. aid could be justified. But he was wrong to believe that vast flows of aid to Africa had been squandered. President Bush said...
...financial markets hinge so dramatically on the Treasury Secretary’s words that extreme caution is necessary whenever the public or the press is within earshot, according to Murray. One wrong word could send the dollar into a tailspin or destroy a foreign economy. Paul O’Neill, for example, Summers’ successor at the Treasury, single-handedly caused the collapse of the Brazilian real when he said the country needed to guarantee that aid money “doesn’t just go out of the country to Swiss bank accounts...
...space on Mass. Ave. was first used as a headquarters for Communist Party candidate Laura Ross, who challenged legendary Massachusetts congressman Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill in the 1970’s. After she lost—twice—the newly founded center took over the space, and to this day pays the rent using donations from members. One of its founders, MIT mathematician Dirk Struik, was banned from teaching during what Dodderman calls “the dark years of the McCarthy era.” Struik stayed...
Associate Dean for Academic Programming and Director of the Medical Curricular Reform Initiative Jane Neill, who oversees the work of the two committees, said that the work of the reform will continue as scheduled...
...other side] loses. There's nothing wrong with both sides getting together and reaching a compromise. Both sides can win. But we don't think like that. When I was here [in the House, as a Congressman in the 1980s] and [minority leader] Bob Michel and [Speaker] Tip O'Neill were running the House, they spoke [to each other] more in one day than the current leaders speak in a whole year...