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- Hints of Relief From the Siege
Reports that Timothy F. Geithner would lead the Treasury Department were seen as a sign of continuity to a new administration. 
- The New Team: Timothy F. Geithner
Timothy F. Geithner has straddled Wall Street and Washington as a central player in trying to resolve the most significant financial crisis in more than 60 years. 
- The Caucus: And the Winner Is … Sidwell Friends
After a school search that inspired weeks of frenzied speculation among parents in the nation's capital, the Obamas announced they will send their two daughters to Sidwell Friends School. 
- Pentagon Urged to Reverse Mask Ban
Thirteen members of Congress and an association of interpreters this week urged the Pentagon to rescind a policy that prohibits interpreters who work with U.S. troops in Baghdad from wearing ski masks to conceal their identity. The U.S. military command
- Embattled Citigroup in talks with US
NEW YORK - With the sharp stock market decline for Citigroup rapidly becoming a full-blown crisis of confidence, the company's executives entered into talks with federal officials yesterday about how to stabilize the struggling financial giant. In tense
- Bush brings pro-trade theme to APEC forum
LIMA, Peru - President Bush arrived in South America yesterday for the final scheduled foreign trip of his presidency, hoping to bolster confidence in efforts to rescue the global economy and move forward on North Korean nuclear disarmament. Bush is
- Bush's last rule-making hurrah
With just 60 days left in his tenure, you might think that W.'s lame-duck administration was sitting around relieved that another guy was taking over, and Bush was counting the minutes until his flight leaves for Crawford. Not quite. Based on the flurry
- Suspected US missile strike kills 4 in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - A suspected US drone aircraft fired a missile in the North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan killing at least four people, according to Pakistani intelligence officials. The attack on a house near the town of Mir Ali came just two days
- Asia, U.S. share a common destiny
Tom Plate, Los Angeles Here's the problem: Serious intellectual narrowing can happen to even the brightest folk once nested down on the East Coast. They become preoccupied (almost neurotically, almost provincially) with the problems of the past --
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