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...tour abroad; the political world is focused on the race to succeed him; his lieutenants are leaving to write books explaining all that was not their fault. There is no way to know what he makes of this or how he processes the price of his policies. But the Tuesday medal ceremony, when he stood by George and Sally Monsoor and told Michael's story, provided a glimpse--not of a President with any doubt of the justice of his cause but certainly of a man reckoning with its cost. Bush talked about the rebellious little boy who grew into...
...Tuesday, former Fed Chair Paul A. Volcker publicly chided Bernanke for the Fed’s recent interventions, which he called excessive...
...unrest spread from the countryside, protesters shut down the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday to decry lavi che - the Creole term for the high cost of living. Gunshot wounds have killed several people this week and injured a Haitian journalist. Rioters broke down two gates to the National Palace before they were stopped by United Nations peacekeepers; Haitian National Police, who number around 8,000, are securing government buildings but have not yet been able to dismantle the barricades of rocks and burning tires that have closed off most of the major roads...
...Haiti's turbulence began last week when food riots broke out in the southern city of Les Cayes. It's hard to know what sparked Tuesday's explosion in the capital - protests in the countryside have been simmering for weeks, and have only recently trickled into Port-au-Prince, where nearly a quarter of the population lives. It's also difficult to know if the protests were organized or spontaneous. If Haiti's history is any example, whenever riots break out its weak security system collapses, giving way to a free-for-all that allows anyone with a vendetta...
...international community, which brokered the peace deal, is fast losing patience with both sides. Former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, who mediated the agreement, has repeatedly urged the two sides to come to a deal, and the European Union on Tuesday warned both sides not to lose momentum...