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2D – Daily News – Wednesday, September 22, 2010 WORLD BRIEFING Obama’s top economic adviser to leave the White House WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, plans to leave the White House at the end of the year, a move that comes as the administration struggles to show an anxious public it’s making progress on the econo- my. In a statement, the president said he is grateful for Summers’ service during a time of ‘‘great peril for our country.’’ ‘‘While we have much work ahead to repair the damage done by the recession, we are on a better path thanks in no small measure to Larry’s wise counsel,’’ Obama said. Summers will return to Har- vard University, a move a senior administration official said was always part of Summers’ long- standing plans. The official said the president asked Summers last fall to stay through 2010 in order to see through the passage of financial regulatory legisla- tion and the continued imple- mentation of the economic stimulus package. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal White House matters. GOP senators block bill to allow gays in military WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked legislation that would have repealed the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for Senate Democrats and gay rights advocates, who saw the bill as their last chance before November’s elections to overturn the law known as ‘‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’’ With the 56-43 vote, Democ- rats fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance the legisla- tion. It also would have autho- rized $726 billion in defense spending including a pay raise for troops. Senate Democrats attached the repeal provision to the defense bill in the hopes that ences on easing the misery of the one billion people living on less than $1.25 a day. More than 140 presidents, prime ministers and kings are attending the three-day summit which started Monday to assess and spur on achievement of U.N. targets set by world lead- ers in 2000. The plan called for an intensive global campaign to ease poverty, disease and inequalities between rich and poor by 2015. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, however, never mentioned the Millennium Development Goals in his speech to the 192-member Gen- eral Assembly. Instead, he took aim at capi- talism and called for the over- haul of ‘‘undemocratic and unjust’’ global decision-making bodies, which are dominated by the United States and other Western powers. While Ahmadinejad didn’t single out any country, he said world lead- ers, thinkers and global reform- ers should ‘‘spare no effort’’ to make practical plans for a new world order — reform of inter- national economic and political institutions. Republicans would hesitate to vote against legislation that included popular defense pro- grams. But GOP legislators opposed the bill anyway, thwarting a key part of the Democrats’ legislative agenda. Now, gay rights advocates say they worry they have lost a crucial opportunity to change the law. If Democrats lose seats in the upcoming elections this fall, repealing the ban could prove even more difficult — if not impossible — next year. Ahmadinejad predicts defeat of capitalism UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s president on Tuesday predicted the defeat of capital- ism and blamed global big busi- ness for the suffering of mil- lions, but Germany’s chancellor said market economies were key to lifting the world’s least developed countries out of poverty. The clash of visions at the U.N. anti-poverty summit drew a line under the stark differ- Health care law leaves many uncertain WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months after President Barack Obama signed the landmark health care law, the nation still doesn’t really know what’s in it. More than half of Americans mistakenly believe the overhaul will raise taxes for most people this year, an Associated Press poll finds. But that would be true only if most people were devoted to indoor tanning, which got hit with a sales tax. Many who wanted the health care system to be overhauled don’t realize that some provi- sions they cared about actually did make it in. And about a quarter of supporters don’t understand that something hardly anyone wanted didn’t make it: They mistakenly say the law will set up panels of bureaucrats to make decisions about people’s care — what critics labeled ‘‘death panels.’’ The uncertainty and confu- sion amount to a dismal verdict for the Obama administration’s campaign to win over public opinion. Before the final votes in Congress, Obama personally assured wavering Democrats he’d take the case to the Ameri- can people after the law passed. But it hasn’t worked. And in the final stretch before the midterm elections Republicans are unit- ed by their call for repeal. ‘‘I’m insecure about a docu- ment that was as big as the health care bill and wonder if anybody understands exactly what’s in it,’’ said Diann Kelley, 61, a retiree from Marietta, Ga., who says she’s ‘‘somewhat opposed’’ to the law. The AP poll was conducted by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The new tea party is still disjointed, but it has energy WASHINGTON (AP) — Tea party activists and the Republican establishment are quickly joining forces for the fall elections as fresh cash and energy flow to the upstarts. Separate tea party groups still squabble over roles for Republi- can insiders within the movement, but the conservative activists and GOP stalwarts have reached a truce for the common goal of defeating Democrats, heeding calls for unity from Republicans including Sarah Palin. One group — the nonprofit Tea Party Patriots — on Tuesday announced a $1 million donation from an anonymous donor, a shot of cash to be spent before the elec- tion on voter mobilization efforts. The Tea Party Express is prepar- ing to assist specific candidates, building on its targeted advertising campaigns during primary races in Delaware, Alaska and Nevada. Meanwhile, the Republican Party and GOP-allied outside groups are already helping some tea party-backed candidates, most notably Sharron Angle who is seeking to unseat Senate Majority leader Harry Reid in Nevada. ‘‘Ultimately, that’s what we all hope happens, as citizens,’’ said Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler. ‘‘The political par- ties support the candidates that the people support, not the other way around.’’ Italy seizes $30M from Vatican in probe VATICAN CITY (AP) — Ital- ian authorities seized euro23 mil- lion ($30 million) from a Vatican bank account Tuesday and said they have begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laun- dering probe. The Vatican said it was ‘‘per- plexed and surprised’’ by the investigation. Italian financial police seized the money as a precaution and prosecutors placed the Vatican bank’s chairman and director gen- eral under investigation for alleged mistakes linked to viola- tions of Italy’s anti-laundering laws, news reports said. The investigation is not the first trouble for the bank — for- mally known as the Institute for Works of Religion. In the 1980s, it was involved in a major scandal that resulted in a banker, dubbed ‘‘God’s Banker’’ because of his close ties to the Vatican, being found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London. The Vatican expressed full trust in the chairman of the bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, and his director-general, identified by the Vatican directory as Paolo Cipri- ani. It said the bank had been working for some time to make its finances more transparent to com- ply with anti-terrorism and anti- money-laundering regulations. Archaeologists find lavish theater box at winter palace JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli archaeologists have excavated a lavish, private the- ater box in a 400-seat facility at King Herod’s winter palace in the Judean desert, the team’s head said Tuesday. Ehud Netzer of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said the room provides further evidence of King Herod’s famed taste for extravagance. Herod commissioned Roman artists to decorate the theater walls with elaborate paintings and plaster moldings around 15 B.C., Netzer said. Its upper por- tions feature paintings of win- dows overlooking a river and a seascape with a large sailboat. This is the first time this painting style has been found in Israel, Netzer said. Herod was the Jewish proxy ruler of the Holy Land under Roman occupation from 37 to 4 B.C. He is known for his exten- sive building throughout the area. HOME SERVICES DIRECTORY 7900 Runs Every Monday - Wednesday - Friday $ $ with a 3 month commitment Blinds Need Blinds? 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