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Article: Bush Taps Michigan State University Chief to Rebuild Iraq's Economy.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 18, 2003
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Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 18--EAST LANSING, Mich.--The Bush administration has tapped Michigan State University President Peter McPherson, a former top official at the U.S. Treasury Department and in U.S. foreign aid programs, to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
McPherson's assignment is expected to be temporary -- one MSU trustee said he could be back in the fall -- and he will not resign from the university.
Details on what McPherson will do were sketchy Thursday, even as news of the assignment spread on and off campus.
McPherson, 62, also a former executive with Bank of America, is expected to ...