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Europeans Offer Deal to Make Wolfowitz Quit

U.S. could choose the next World Bank president

By Peter Fearon, Newser Staff

Posted May 8, 2007 7:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – European partners in the World Bank have signaled to the White House that they want Paul Wolfowitz to resign, the New York Times reports, and they're willing to let the U.S. appoint his successor to make that happen. After an investigating committee found Wolfowitz... Read full story »

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