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Samantha Power, Sunstein’s wife and another Harvard professor on leave in Washington, also made the list at number...
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...billion market for its exports and imperil its dollar-denominated investments. China pegged its currency to the dollar years ago in order to hitch its wagon to the world's most dynamic economy but today worries that a declining dollar will impede China's growth. Many in Washington and on Wall Street believe that China's currency policy gives it unfair advantages in trade and that its reliance on state spending rather than domestic consumption is a core cause of the global economic crisis. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...specialized in multilateral disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation negotiations over 36 years in Japan's foreign service, with postings in Washington, Brussels, Geneva and Vientiane...
...Washington, both chambers of the U.S. Congress are preparing to pass widely supported bills that would punish corporations anywhere in the world that supply Iran with refined petroleum. One or both of the bills could pass before the end of the year, and they are sufficiently tough to raise concern in the Administration that they could close off all chances for diplomacy. "The problem with congressional measures is you can't turn them on and off as you like," says the senior Administration official. "We've been having ongoing discussions with the Hill," to tailor the bills and slow them...