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...Uncle Sam owes to his lenders. While we're trying to get our heads around what amounts to the biggest debt transfer since money was created, Lehman Brothers goes broke, and Merrill Lynch feels compelled to shack up with Bank of America to avoid a similar fate. Then, having sworn off bailouts by letting Lehman fail and wiping out its shareholders, the Treasury and the Fed reverse course for an $85 billion rescue of creditors and policyholders of American International Group (AIG), a $1 trillion insurance company. Other once impregnable institutions may disappear or be gobbled...
...Western Hemisphere Affairs, told Spanish news service Efe that Goldberg was a "diplomat of impeccable conduct" and called the expulsion "a big mistake." Though the move is likely to play well with supporters of Morales, not everyone in Bolivia was convinced, given the absence of any documents, recordings or sworn testimony to back up the allegations...
...Commencement address in June. “We cannot treat our endowment as a lump sum.” Even if Grassley were to act on his legislative threat, the looming presidential election makes it unlikely that a new law would be passed before the next U.S. Congress is sworn in next January. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...final note, a glance at the forest instead of the trees: No matter how it ends, this contest is now a lock for the history books. Our grandchildren will study it in school. Next January, barring some cataclysm, an oath sworn through the centuries exclusively by white men will be taken by an African-American man or a woman...
...Alas, the cries of pain and anger may just embolden Mugabe further. The octogenarian ruler told a state-run newspaper soon after his parliamentary appearance that South African?brokered talks had broken down and his party would again form the government, not the MDC, which he has sworn will never take power. Mugabe has long claimed to rule in the name of the people. (Though he allowed, after the opposition's victory, that the people sometimes make "a mistake.") It seems the former school teacher intends to correct such errors for a while longer...