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Article: SOUND ADVICE ON IRAQ.(Editorial)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2003
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Byline: GEORGE WILL
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- With states' budgets in crisis, being president of a large public university is even more difficult than it is when, as the saying goes, campus preoccupations are parking for faculty, football for alumni and sex for students. So it might have been a relief for Peter McPherson, president of Michigan State University, to spend five months in Iraq overseeing economic reconstruction.
McPherson, a former banker, is not a novice in government service at the national level. He served in the Ford White House, then headed the $6 billion Agency for International Development and was President Reagan's deputy secretary of ...