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...Chief Economic Spokesperson. Quick: Name all three of Bush's Treasury Secretaries. Hard to do, isn't it? Like Bush, Obama has failed to install an economics commander in chief who can serve as the public face and the in-house honcho of the Administration's financial team. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, National Economic Council chief Larry Summers and Council of Economic Advisers chair Christina Romer all bring strengths to their positions, but none is especially effective at conveying either a consistent message or a sufficient urgency, and none stands out symbolically or practically as America's economics czar...
...realism, both of which have characterized all the work he has produced; he's a Kennedy liberal with old-time values, the kind that embraces Main Street on the Fourth of July. The success of Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers turned him into a Tom Brokaw-like spokesperson for the Greatest Generation. When he visits Johnson Space Center in Houston or Fort Bragg in North Carolina, he is feted as if Neil Armstrong had entered the room. He's the visual David McCullough of his generation, framing the heroic tales of explorers, astronauts and soldiers for a wide...
...Also testifying before the panel will be Herb Allison, who runs the Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the main vehicle the government has used to assist banks. Warren has said she wants Pandit to delineate how he plans to fully pay back taxpayers. A spokesperson for Warren says she has no plans to press Treasury on why Citi was allowed out of the government's most stringent pay restrictions...
...program only provided stipends to 17 students this year, and University spokesperson Kevin Galvin said that administrators decided in December that the University’s resources should benefit a larger number of individuals in the community...
...already working collaboratively with departments, centers, and other units of FAS to develop [fiscal year 2011] budgets in line with the guidance issued on February 4,” FAS spokesperson Jeff Neal wrote in an e-mailed statement on behalf of Kirwan...