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...families, the focus of Warren's academic research. Her relationship with Treasury has been rocky. She got into a low-level war with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and his staff over their perceived unwillingness to share information, and she had a shaky start with Geithner, who didn't seem to take the panel seriously at first. In an "Additional View" filed with the panel's June report, Republican panel member Jeb Hensarling wrote, "By choosing to focus much of its work on issues not central to our mandate the panel has missed critical opportunities to provide effective oversight...
...argued that its policies were doing little to help reduce home foreclosures or alleviate stress on families. Even if accurate, those early pronouncements did not help to pave the way to a functional working relationship between Warren and the people she was supposed to oversee. Former Treasury officials seem to despise her and complain that Warren is only trying to advance her own agenda by using the panel for - gasp! - social good. "When a person in that position doesn't really try to reach out and communicate and then goes out and gives interviews, it becomes clear this is going...
...would have written had he grown up next door to the Cleavers") and judicious use of examples from American history. With a law professor in the White House, Pierce's thesis and gleeful bashing of the previous Administration ("we have lived through an unprecedented decade of richly empowered hooey") seem a bit dated. But his high-octane ranting and sophisticated prose (he is a contributing writer for Esquire) may well appeal to the already converted...
...required reading for the U.S. Army's newly launched unit of camoufleurs. Now that troops had to avoid bombs dropped from the sky, mines underfoot and bullets from pretty much everywhere else, the gloriously regal (not to mention flamboyant) garb worn in an earlier era of warfare began to seem a bit outdated, if not downright dangerous...
...Hawaiians, or the tourists on whom the state's economy relies, seem concerned. The state's tourism office told the Associated Press that only a single prospective visitor had called to ask about the threat. "We believe," spokeswoman Marsha Wienert said, "that this is a very safe destination...