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'Now' means now
President-elect Obama doesn't have the luxury to prepare leisurely for the job; with the festering economic crisis, U.S. needs a leader
Barack Obama often spoke of "the fierce urgency of now" during his race for the White House. Now that he's the president-elect, that urgency has to be even fiercer, a reality he addressed Friday by appearing for his first postelection news conference flanked by business and economic luminaries. It was a timely show of intellectual force.
With petrified financial markets, surging unemployment,...
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