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...troubles were exacerbated when the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a $700 billion rescue package for banks across the Atlantic on Sept. 29. For all the difficulties the Bush Administration has encountered as it tries to push through that package, there's a crucial difference between the U.S. response and the European one: in Washington, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has been working closely with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to craft a systemic response to what has turned into a systemic crisis. In the 27-nation European Union, by comparison, there is no single bank regulator and no mechanisms by which...
...still too early to know if Europe's patchwork regulations will be transformed - Hans Martens, chief executive of the European Policy Centre, for one, says the current crisis could actually push governments in the opposite direction, toward more national intervention: "I don't think the mood is for more Europe...
...Democracy is bigger than any one person.' WILLIAM C. THOMPSON JR., New York City comptroller, decrying the prospect that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will push for a change in city law to run for a third term. Thompson plans to run for mayor...
...staffers who run much of the GOP establishment, from the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (which used to be run by his son Andy McCain) to the state house and senate, where moderate Republicans like outgoing senate president Tim Bee and Tucson representative Pete Hershberger have been able to push through much of their agenda by working with Democrats...
...Hart showing about four inches of boxer shorts, then discovered that he was on probation for a possession-of-marijuana charge. Hart spent a night in jail. Judge Paul Moyle opined that the saggy-pants law was unconstitutional and released Hart. And the county public defender's office may push to repeal the law. The saggers also have the support of the local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and attorney James Green, who nearly three decades ago successfully defended a man who was arrested for jogging shirtless on the ritzy island of Palm Beach...