In Summers, Obama seeks a generator of ideas

With his appointment yesterday to lead the National Economic Council, the brainy but abrasive Lawrence H. Summers is set to become a key ideas man for President-elect Barack Obama as he labors to keep the economic crisis from spiraling out of control. (Full article: 765 words)

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