I was on the road when President Obama announded his preferred choice of Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim to be the next World Bank President. Since then, both the Economist and Financial Times have endorsed Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala instead. I didn't pay it much mind, because, frankly, if the U.S. could get Paul Wolfowitz through the nomination process, Kim wasn't gonna be a problem.
Over the weekend, however, things jumped up a notch on the rhetorical front. I confess to being a bit puzzled by it all.
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