NYT: How Battles at Bank Ended ‘Second Chance’ at a Career

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“The bank leadership didn’t like Paul challenging their assumptions,” said Robert B. Holland III, a Texas businessman who represented the Bush administration on the bank board until last year. “They have all been there a long time, and they are used to promoting each other’s interests and scratching each other’s back.”

But others say Mr. Wolfowitz repeated the mistakes he had made at the Pentagon: adopting a single-minded position on certain matters, refusing to entertain alternative views, marginalizing dissenters.

“Wolfowitz unsettled people from the outset,” said Manish Bapna, executive director of the Bank Information Center, an independent watchdog group. “His style was seen as an ad hoc subjective approach to punishing enemies and rewarding friends.”

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Bank officials say, in fact, that when he arrived there in 2005, Mr. Wolfowitz wanted to write a book about Iraq and accept fees for speeches. That set off his first fight with ethics officers, who told him he could not do so.

When these proposals were rejected, he soured on the office of the general counsel, Roberto Dañino, a former prime minister of Peru and the first official who suggested to him that Shaha Ali Riza, his companion and a bank employee, could not remain at the bank because Mr. Wolfowitz would be supervising her.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/washington/18worldbank.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

[aquart]

1. They wouldn't let him be a unitary executive?

[opihimoimoi]

2. He qualies for the Advanced Comb Licker 3 Postion.....The Term DESPICABLE applies

and DETESTABLE too

[Infomaniac]

3. So What Position is Chimpy Going to Nominate Him for Now?

Now that Der Combmeister is out of a job, what does his future hold? A screw-up at the Pentagon, a screw-up at the World Bank. What's Chimpy & Co going to do now since Bushco's apparent motto is Guaranteed Full Employment for White Male Incompetents?