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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Dimon and Varley’s editorials point to a broadening consensus that a reform of the financial services industry is necessary. But Lawrence White, a professor of economics at the Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University, questioned whether this most recent study has added new insights to the debate...

Author: By Diana McKeage, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Study Faults CEO Pay | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...Asia. He allowed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 plotters to be tried in the U.S. criminal-justice system rather than by the military. He has dithered too long on Afghanistan. He has devoted too much attention to - and given congressional Democrats too much control over - health care reform, an issue that is peripheral to a majority of Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...popularity after one year, while Obama and Bill Clinton rank at the bottom, with Jimmy Carter close by. There is a reason for that. Democrats come to office eager to govern the heck out of the country. They take on impossible issues, like budget-balancing and health care reform. They run into roadblocks - from their own unruly ranks as well as from Republicans. They get lost in the details. A tax cut is much easier to explain than a tax increase. A foreign policy based in bluster - railing against an "axis of evil" - is easier to sell than a foreign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...gained the global credibility to get tough - on Iran, for example - in his second year. But the real evaluation of Obama's debut must wait for the results of the two biggest problems he's tackling: his decision on Afghanistan and the congressional attempt to pass health care reform. And even here, it will be difficult to render judgment immediately - as difficult as it was to judge Clinton's decision to spend his political capital on deficit reduction in his 1993 economic plan, a triumph that didn't become apparent for nearly five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's 'Mistakes': Way Too Early to Judge | 11/25/2009 | See Source »

...Began his second term as Prime Minister in May 2009, after the Congress Party notched a second legislative win, calling the victory a "massive mandate" for Congress's platform of economic reform and championing the poor. He's the first Indian incumbent to be re-elected in 40 years. (Read "Five Challenges Facing India's Election Victors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister | 11/24/2009 | See Source »

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