Word: wolfowitzes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Because I am a Zionist, and my last name is Dershowitz, which rhymes with Wolfowitz, I am perceived as extremely right-wing,” he said...
BANK OF THE SOUTH First the Paul Wolfowitz scandal, and now this: at the end of the month, "Banco del Sur" will launch as a direct competitor to the World Bank, at least in South America. The brainchild of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who has long railed against the meddling of the Washington-dominated World Bank and IMF, the development bank got a credibility boost when Brazil, Argentina and others signed on as founding members. With the region's new oil wealth, the dream of locally funding big infrastructure projects without First World interference may be closer than ever...
Last Wednesday, President George W. Bush announced that he would nominate Robert B. Zoellick, a Harvard Law School (HLS) and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) graduate, to be the World Bank’s 11th president, succeeding Paul Wolfowitz in the position. His nomination is subject to approval by the Bank’s Board of Governors, who are appointed to five-year terms by the Bank’s member countries. “Bob Zoellick has had a long and distinguished career in diplomacy and development economics,” said the President in a press conference last...
...Zoellick was hardly the safe choice to replace Paul Wolfowitz, who is leaving at the end of June after running afoul of the Bank's conflict-of-interest rules. Zoellick may be seen by some as too closely identified with the Bush Administration, having served in it from its start through summer of 2006. Less controversial alternatives were available, such as Commerce Secretary Carlos Guiterrez and Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt, who would probably have been acceptable to most of the European and Asian countries who get an informal chop on the choice. But Zoellick was more qualified than either...
...World Bank boss, Zoellick will have a chance to mix with every finance and foreign minister in the world, including America's own. And then there is the matter of running the World Bank. Even before Wolfowitz , embroiled in a scandal over his role in finding a new job for a World Bank employee with whom he had a close relationship, lost the confidence of the Bank's vast bureaucracy, the Bank was struggling to both justify the need for a multinational lending institution sponsoring big public projects in an era in dotted with increasingly effective non-governmental organizations...