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...went on the attack. It came on the eve of ex-chairman Maurice (Hank) Greenberg's congressional testimony critical of the firm's current leaders and the bailout strategy. Reporters were given a document outlining Greenberg's role in creating a ruinous AIG unit and his 2005 ouster. A press release questioned why he should have "any credibility." Ashooh said the document was prepared internally, not by p.r. firms, and was intended to correct "misinformation" spread by Greenberg...
...five years. Because the drop-off predated the worst of the recession, the report argued, the decline showed that the get-tough policies passed at the end of the Bush Administration were working. Members of Congress like Republican Representative Tom Feeney of Florida were on hand for a press conference with the report's authors. He celebrated the end of "perverse incentives" that had kept illegal immigrants in the U.S. "Obviously," Feeney said, "illegals are getting the message." (Watch TIME's video "Blocking the Border Fence...
...present to clients that range from Wall Street investors and sovereign wealth funds to staffers from the Commerce and Treasury departments. He's the recession's ascendant wonk and most improbable celebrity, as likely to pop up in the newspaper or on television as behind Nancy Pelosi during a press conference - sort of a post-housing-bubble Zelig. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Yosano took over the finance and banking positions from former Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned in mid-February after appearing to be drunk at a G-7 press conference. Prime Minister Taro Aso tapped Yosano as the ultimate insider; as minister of economy, a post he has held since September, Yosano knew his way around the draft budget for 2009. Still, the breadth of his responsibilities now is daunting. (Read "Sony's Woes: Japan's Iconic Brands Under Fire...
...police - which it had spent years fighting. One way in which this identity crisis is expressed is in the modern ANC look - the mix of bling and camo worn by the Prada proletariat on display in East London. At a more serious level, while business, civil society and the press provide far more of a check on South Africa's government than they do in, say, Zimbabwe, the party's critics see the same bad underlying dynamics at work. Andrew Feinstein, a former ANC MP who resigned in 2001 in protest at the way his party was frustrating an investigation...