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(CNN) -- Defending champion Alberto Contador has issued an apology after he took advantage of his rival Andy Schleck's mechanical failure to seize the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

Schleck, who was leading Astana rider Contador by 31 seconds in the overall standings going into stage 15 on Monday, dropped his chain while launching an attack on the day's final climb and had to stop to repair the problem.

Rather than waiting for his rival -- in keeping with the Tour's sporting traditions -- Contador and a group including fellow contenders Denis Menchov and Samuel Sanchez stole a march to the finish, gaining 39 seconds on Schleck.

Contador now leads Saxo Bank's Schleck by eight seconds in the overall standings, with Spain's Sanchez two minutes behind the leader in third and Russia's Menchov two minutes, 13 seconds back.

See Contador's Youtube apology here

Spaniard Contador was booed by the French crowd as he was awarded the yellow jersey on the podium and was heavily criticized by Schleck.

But after reflecting on the stage, Contador issued a video on Youtube saying: "The race was in full gear and, well, maybe I made a mistake. I'm sorry.

"At a time like that all you think about is riding as fast as you can. I'm not happy, in the sense that, to me, fair play is very important.

"The kind of thing that happened today is not something I like, it's not my style and I hope my relationship with Andy will remain as good as before."

Luxembourg's Schleck, the runner-up to two-time champion Contador last year, was angered by what he saw as a lack of "fair play" and vowed to take "revenge" on his rival.

"In the same situation I would not have taken advantage," Schleck said, AFP reported. "I'm not the jury, but for sure those guys wouldn't get the fair play award from me today.

"I'm really disappointed. My stomach is full of anger, and I want to take my revenge. I will take my revenge in the coming days."

In a similar situation in 2003, Germany's Jan Ullrich was praised for his sportsmanship after he waited for Lance Armstrong to recover from a collision with a spectator in the Pyrenees.

Armstrong then surged forward to win the stage by 40 seconds en route to the fifth of his seven Tour victories.

The 187.5 kilometer stage from Pamiers to Bagneres-de-Luchon - the second of four stages in the Pyrenees - was won by French champion Thomas Voeckler after a fine solo ride, finishing nearly three minutes ahead of the race favorites.

Voeckler's triumph gave France their fifth victory in 15 stages.

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(CNN) -- A Nestle plant linked to an outbreak of illness has been shut temporarily, and the company said Monday that it expects to lay off more than 200 workers as a result.

Preliminary results "indicate a strong association with eating raw prepackaged cookie dough," the CDC says.

"It's likely that we're going to have some temporary layoffs at that facility," Nestle spokeswoman Roz O'Hearn said of the Danville, Virginia, facility that was churning out refrigerated cookie-dough products until Thursday.

About 550 people work at the factory, but only about half of them work on cookie dough, she said. The rest work on Buitoni pasta and sauce in a separate facility at the plant.

She said there is little chance that the Buitoni products might be tainted, because -- even if the cookie dough is proved to be the source of the outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 -- it is a kosher product, meaning it is made from a segregated stream of ingredients.

Danville's Economic Development Office said the city's unemployment rate is 14.3 percent.

Nestle was first alerted to the problem late Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, O'Hearn said, adding: "Less than a day later, we made the decision to remove the product. We shut down. We stopped shipping."

Included in the recall are 300,000 cases of the product. Each case contains 12 packages, and each package contains 24 cookies. That's a total of 86.4 million cookies' worth of dough.

The recall does not include Dreyer's or Edy's ice cream products with Nestle Toll House "cookie dough" ingredients. That's because the "dough" in ice cream is not really dough at all; it is cooked.

"Ice cream is a different formulation," O'Hearn said. "Since it's not meant to be baked before consumption -- those cookie crumbles that are in the formulation -- they're all cooked. For the cookie dough that's present in the ice cream, Dreyer's is using heat-treated ingredients."

According to the CDC, between March 1 and Monday, 70 people in 30 states had been infected with a strain of E. coli. The ages of the people affected ranged from 2 to 57 years, though more than 70 percent were younger than 19, and 75 percent were female, the agency said on its Web site.

Twenty-five people had been hospitalized, and seven had developed a kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome. No fatalities had been reported, it said.

"Preliminary results of this investigation indicate a strong association with eating raw prepackaged cookie dough," the agency said. "Most patients reported eating refrigerated prepackaged Nestle Toll House cookie dough products raw."

Though cooking the product would kill the bacteria, the agency did not recommend that people holding on to the company's cookie-dough products do so, "because consumers might get the bacteria on their hands and on other cooking surfaces."

The recall does not include Nestle Toll House morsels, which are used as an ingredient in many homemade baked goods, or other baked cookie products.

CNN's Louise Schiavone contributed to this story.

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KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepal's prime minister said Monday he will resign to save what he called the country's "infant democracy."

Pushpa Kamal Dahal cited a serious political crisis caused by the president's "unconstitutional" order.

It is the latest fallout over the status of Nepal's army chief, Gen. Rookmangud Katawal. The Maoist government sacked Katawal on Sunday. Hours later, President Ram Baran Yadav reinstated him.

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, commonly known as Prachanda, resigned on Monday, citing a serious political crisis caused by the president's "unconstitutional" order.

"The dual powers that have been unconstitutionally established in the country must end under any circumstance," Prachanda said in a televised address announcing he would resign from the country's Cabinet.

Prachanda is the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which had been the largest party in Nepal's coalition government until it recently withdrew. The former guerilla leader headed a decade-long bloody Maoist insurgency to abolish the country's monarchy before being sworn in as prime minister in August.

In his address on Monday, Prachanda blamed certain political parties and "power centers" for "striking at our democracy, constitution and the peace process by putting the president in the forefront of the controversy over the chief of army staff."

"This has raised concerns over our infant democracy and the peace process," he said.

"I appeal to the people, civil society and political powers to be committed to the struggle for establishing a democratic Nepal."

Nepal's interim constitution gives the president powers as supreme commander of the army and guardian of the constitution. Yadav's spokesman said the president had the support of 18 parties in parliament when he reinstated the army chief.

The decision to fire Katawal touched off protests. Supporters of both sides in the dispute took to the streets on Sunday. Despite sporadic clashes between the two factions, there were no serious injuries reported.

The Cabinet voted to dismiss Katawal after the military refused the government's order to stop recruiting about 3,000 new soldiers to fill vacant positions when it has yet to take in former Maoist rebels, as a 2006 peace deal required.

The Maoists laid down their arms and won power in 2008 elections after an agreement that ended a decade-long insurgency. Under the deal, more than 19,000 former insurgents were to be integrated into the country's security forces.

Journalist Manesh Shrestha contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- No one, especially not one of Mexico's top law enforcement officials, denies that killings by drug cartels have reached record levels.

Mexican police carry a body after a clash with gangs that left 21 dead in the state of Chihuahua on February 10.

But Monte Alejandro Rubido Garcia, executive secretary for the National System for Public Safety, has an explanation.

"Mexico all of a sudden stopped being a drug-transit country and became a drug-consuming country," Rubido told CNN on Thursday.

That means gangs that once shipped drugs into the United States are now fighting each other to sell the drugs at home, he said. Their fights center on territory -- who gets to sell what and where.

"The only way to settle their differences is through violence," Rubido said. "They're fighting block by block in a very violent way."

The result is a brutal onslaught that resulted in about 5,400 deaths last year, more than double the 2,477 tallied in 2007. Many analysts say Mexico is on track to set a record again this year.

Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich called the situation in Mexico a "civil war" on a national TV program a few weeks ago.

Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs, terms it "a sickening vertigo into chaos and plunder."

The violence also is a result of the Mexican government's stepped-up fight against the drug cartels. President Felipe Calderon's administration has spent more money and confiscated more drugs than any previous one, Rubido said.

"Every time the state strikes a blow against them, their reaction is more violence," Rubido said of the drug cartels.

A United Nations report released this week notes that the "government of Mexico faces violent opposition by drug cartels to its attempts to fight organized crime and drug trafficking," adding that "drug cartels have responded with unprecedented violence."

Much of this violence, Rubido said, is carried out in "high-impact" fashion, aiming to get attention and demoralize the cartels' enemies. For example, decapitations have become common. But decapitation often is not the cause of death.

"They're first killed with a shot, then decapitated for maximum visual impact," the law enforcement official said. "They're trying to make the state go into reverse."

That will not happen, Rubido vowed. "The only way to fight this is like we're doing in Mexico."

He listed three fronts in the conflict: a frontal assault on the gangs; prevention campaigns against drug use; and a common strategy and tactics among Mexico 1,660 police agencies.

It's a tough battle, he admits, especially since the use of cocaine in Mexico has doubled in the past four years. Cocaine traffickers, Rubido said, have been looking for new markets and have targeted Europe and Mexico.  Watch how the violence is affecting the United States Â»

The U.N. report released this week notes that "despite concrete measures adopted by the government, drug abuse remains high in Mexico, especially among school-age children and young people."

The war on drugs in Mexico is made even more difficult by rampant corruption, the report says.

"There is so much money involved in the drug trade, there is so much fear involved in the drug trade, that no institution can survive unaffected," said Birns.

Says Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy center: "This has really revealed just how corrupt Mexican officeholders are, how many people in key positions in the anti-drug war have been taking money from narcotraffickers."

In one recent instance, Noe Ramirez Mandujano, who was the nation's top anti-drug official from 2006 until August 2008, was arrested on charges that he accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers while in office.

There have been other similar arrests of high-ranking officials for taking bribes from drug traffickers.

"There's no way the public treasury can pay what the drug traffickers are paying," Hakim said.

Rubido acknowledges the situation. "It is a problem, and it is assumed as fact," he said Thursday. But he also sees the arrest of high-ranking officials as proof that anti-corruption efforts are working.

Drug lords have two ways to battle anti-crime efforts, he said: bribes and intimidation.

That intimidation can often take brutal forms. Last weekend, for example, a police official in Tabasco state who had arrested a trafficker a week earlier was killed. So were his mother, his wife, his children and nieces and nephews. His brother, also a state police officer, was wounded, as were two others. In all, 12 people were shot dead in three homes. Six of them were children.

A few days earlier, a retired army general was abducted, tortured and shot 11 times, less than 24 hours after becoming Cancun's top anti-drug official. He, his aide and a driver were all found dead in a truck by the side of a road. Cancun's police chief was arrested a few days later in connection with the slayings.

Still, Rubido and others say, most of the deaths involve just drug traffickers, not ordinary citizens.

"Ninety percent of the people who died last year in organized crime were involved in crime," Rubido said. "The problem is among criminal gangs."

Rubido sees the Mexican government prevailing. "I have a firm conviction that it's a battle we will win," he said.

Others are much less certain.

"The occasional anti-drug battle is being won, but the war is being lost," said Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs public policy institute. "And there's no prospect the war is going to be won."

That pessimism that the current strategy is working has led to calls for a new approach.

Last week, the former presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil called for the decriminalization of marijuana for personal use and a change in strategy on the war on drugs. Ex-presidents Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico, Cesar Gaviria of Colombia and Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil made their announcement at a meeting in Brazil of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy.

"The problem is that current policies are based on prejudices and fears and not on results," Gaviria said at a news conference in which the 17-member commission's recommendations were presented.

Robert Pastor, a Latin America national security adviser for President Carter in the late 1970s, calls the problem in Mexico "even worse than Chicago during the Prohibition era."

He said a solution similar to what ended that violence is needed now.

"What worked in the U.S. was not Eliot Ness," he said, referring to the federal agent famous for fighting gangsters in 1920s and '30s. "It was the repeal of Prohibition."

Rubido is diplomatic, saying decriminalizing drugs is a "terribly sensible" approach that has received much thought. But he's not buying it.

"This has become a world of globalization," he said. "Globalization has many virtues, but some errors. I can't conceive that one part of the world would decriminalize drugs because it would become a paradise for drug use. It might bring down violence, but there would be social damage."

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Editor's Note: Barry Eichengreen is George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Golden Fetters: the Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939."

Barry Eichengreen says strong action should be taken to stop the financial crisis from getting worse.

BERKELEY, California (CNN) -- Every time the economy and stock market turn down, financial historians get predictable calls from reporters.

Could this be the start of another Great Depression? Could "it" possibly happen again? My stock answer has always been no.

The Great Depression resulted from a series of economic and financial shocks -- the end of a housing bubble in 1926 and the end of a high-tech bubble in 1929 -- but also from truly breathtaking neglect and incompetence on the part of policymakers.

It couldn't happen again precisely because policymakers know this history. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is a student of the Great Depression. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson remembers the mistakes of Andrew Mellon, Herbert Hoover's treasury secretary.

We can be confident, I always answered, that there will not be another Great Depression because policymakers have read financial histories like mine. At least that was my line until recently. Now I have stopped taking reporters' calls.

The first thing that made the Great Depression great, of course, was the Fed's failure to act. It basically stood by as the banking system and the economy collapsed around it. This time, in contrast, the Fed can hardly be criticized for inaction. Not only has it cut rates, but it has rolled out one new unprecedented initiative after another.

Unfortunately, it has reacted more than acted. First, it provided funds to the commercial banks. Then, it targeted broker-dealers. Now, it is desperately propping up the commercial paper market. All the while however, the problem has been infecting new parts of the financial system.

One thing that restrained the Fed in the 1930s was the fear that rate cuts might cause capital to flee to other countries and the dollar to crash. The danger was that the same liquidity that the Fed poured in through the top of the bucket might just leak back out through these holes in the bottom.

There was a solution: coordinated rate cuts here and in Europe. Unfortunately, central bankers couldn't agree on what was needed. The result was further instability.

That central banks have learned this lesson of history and now see the need for coordinated action is at least one ground for hope. The problem is that they have already used their bullets. iReport.com: What lessons have your family passed down from the Great Depression?

U.S. Treasury bill rates have essentially fallen to zero, and the Fed's policy interest rates are only slightly above that level. Central banks are out of ammunition. This is no longer a problem they can solve by themselves.

What is needed now is Treasury action to address what has morphed into a global banking crisis. Between 1930 and 1933, not just the U.S. but also Europe and Latin America experienced rolling banking crises.

When Austria took desperate measures to prop up its banking system, its banking crisis only shifted to Germany. When Germany did the same, the crisis spread to the United States.

This was beggar-thy-neighbor policy at its worst. We have seen some disturbing evidence of the same in recent weeks, as when Ireland unilaterally guaranteed all bank deposits and thereby sucked funds out of the British banking system.

G7 leaders, when they meet in Washington at the end of this week, need to explain exactly how they will address this aspect of the problem. They need to commit money to recapitalizing their banking systems -- now, and not next week.

The U.K., which has just announced a $50 billion plan for bank recapitalization, has shown how this can be done in a matter of days. But a coordinated initiative will require the U.S. to put up a considerably larger sum.

My recommendation would be to abandon the idea of reverse auctions for toxic assets and instead use the $700 billion of the recently passed rescue plan for bank recapitalization. Although the Great Depression started in 1929, it took until 1933 for American leaders to grasp this nettle and recapitalize the banks. We can't afford to wait for years this time around.

A final thing that made the Great Depression such a catastrophe was that some of the worst shocks occurred right before the 1932 presidential election. There then followed an extended interregnum between the election and inauguration of the new president when no one was in charge.

The outgoing president, Hoover, asked his successor designate, Franklin Roosevelt, to cooperate with him on joint statements and policies, but FDR refused to do so. Meanwhile, the banking crisis deepened. Corporations failed.

The economy was allowed to spiral downward. It was this disaster that led us to amend the constitution to shorten the time between presidential election and inauguration from 4 to 2ÃÂ½ months.

The implication is clear. The two presidential candidates should be assembling their financial SWAT teams now. Paulson should promise that they will be invited into his office on November 5. This problem cannot wait until Inauguration Day.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer.

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text: 's

text: Note

text: Barry

text: Eichengreen

text: is

text: George

text: C.

text: Pardee

text: and

text: Helen

text: N.

text: Pardee

text: Professor

text: of

text: Economics

text: and

text: Political

text: Science

text: at

text: the

text: University

text: of

text: California

text: Berkeley

text: He

text: is

text: the

text: author

text: of

text: Golden

text: Fetters

text: the

text: Gold

text: Standard

text: and

text: the

text: Great

text: Depression

text: Barry

text: Eichengreen

text: says

text: strong

text: action

text: should

text: be

text: taken

text: to

text: stop

text: the

text: financial

text: crisis

text: from

text: getting

text: worse

text: BERKELEY

text: California

text: CNN

text: Every

text: time

text: the

text: economy

text: and

text: stock

text: market

text: turn

text: down

text: financial

text: historians

text: get

text: predictable

text: calls

text: from

text: reporters

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text: be

text: the

text: start

text: of

text: another

text: Great

text: Depression

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text: happen

text: again

text: My

text: stock

text: answer

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text: always

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text: no

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text: Great

text: Depression

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text: series

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text: economic

text: and

text: financial

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text: end

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text: housing

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text: and

text: the

text: end

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text: high

text: tech

text: bubble

text: in

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text: truly

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text: neglect

text: and

text: incompetence

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text: part

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text: could

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text: happen

text: again

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text: Bernanke

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text: a

text: student

text: of

text: the

text: Great

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text: Secretary

text: Henry

text: Paulson

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text: mistakes

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text: treasury

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text: calls

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text: Fed

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text: the

text: banking

text: system

text: and

text: the

text: economy

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text: around

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text: time

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text: Fed

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text: criticized

text: for

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text: it

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text: rates

text: but

text: it

text: has

text: rolled

text: out

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text: new

text: unprecedented

text: initiative

text: after

text: another

text: Unfortunately

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text: has

text: reacted

text: more

text: than

text: acted

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text: it

text: provided

text: funds

text: to

text: the

text: commercial

text: banks

text: Then

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text: targeted

text: broker

text: dealers

text: Now

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text: is

text: desperately

text: propping

text: up

text: the

text: commercial

text: paper

text: market

text: All

text: the

text: while

text: however

text: the

text: problem

text: has

text: been

text: infecting

text: new

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: financial

text: system

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text: thing

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text: restrained

text: the

text: Fed

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text: the

text: was

text: the

text: fear

text: that

text: rate

text: cuts

text: might

text: cause

text: capital

text: to

text: flee

text: to

text: other

text: countries

text: and

text: the

text: dollar

text: to

text: crash

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text: danger

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text: same

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text: Fed

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text: in

text: through

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text: top

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text: bucket

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text: back

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text: through

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text: holes

text: in

text: the

text: bottom

text: There

text: was

text: a

text: solution

text: coordinated

text: rate

text: cuts

text: here

text: and

text: in

text: Europe

text: Unfortunately

text: central

text: bankers

text: could

text: n't

text: agree

text: on

text: what

text: was

text: needed

text: The

text: result

text: was

text: further

text: instability

text: That

text: central

text: banks

text: have

text: learned

text: this

text: lesson

text: of

text: history

text: and

text: now

text: see

text: the

text: need

text: for

text: coordinated

text: action

text: is

text: at

text: least

text: one

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text: hope

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text: problem

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text: that

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text: already

text: used

text: their

text: bullets

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text: lessons

text: have

text: your

text: family

text: passed

text: down

text: from

text: the

text: Great

text: Depression

text: U.S.

text: Treasury

text: bill

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text: have

text: essentially

text: fallen

text: to

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text: and

text: the

text: Fed

text: 's

text: policy

text: interest

text: rates

text: are

text: only

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text: that

text: level

text: Central

text: banks

text: are

text: out

text: of

text: ammunition

text: This

text: is

text: no

text: longer

text: a

text: problem

text: they

text: can

text: solve

text: by

text: themselves

text: What

text: is

text: needed

text: now

text: is

text: Treasury

text: action

text: to

text: address

text: what

text: has

text: morphed

text: into

text: a

text: global

text: banking

text: crisis

text: Between

text: and

text: not

text: just

text: the

text: U.S.

text: but

text: also

text: Europe

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text: Latin

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text: experienced

text: rolling

text: banking

text: crises

text: When

text: Austria

text: took

text: desperate

text: measures

text: to

text: prop

text: up

text: its

text: banking

text: system

text: its

text: banking

text: crisis

text: only

text: shifted

text: to

text: Germany

text: When

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text: did

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text: same

text: the

text: crisis

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text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

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text: beggar

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text: neighbor

text: policy

text: at

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text: seen

text: some

text: disturbing

text: evidence

text: of

text: the

text: same

text: in

text: recent

text: weeks

text: as

text: when

text: Ireland

text: unilaterally

text: guaranteed

text: all

text: bank

text: deposits

text: and

text: thereby

text: sucked

text: funds

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: British

text: banking

text: system

text: leaders

text: when

text: they

text: meet

text: in

text: Washington

text: at

text: the

text: end

text: of

text: this

text: week

text: need

text: to

text: explain

text: exactly

text: how

text: they

text: will

text: address

text: this

text: aspect

text: of

text: the

text: problem

text: They

text: need

text: to

text: commit

text: money

text: to

text: recapitalizing

text: their

text: banking

text: systems

text: now

text: and

text: not

text: next

text: week

text: The

text: U.K.

text: which

text: has

text: just

text: announced

text: a

text: billion

text: plan

text: for

text: bank

text: recapitalization

text: has

text: shown

text: how

text: this

text: can

text: be

text: done

text: in

text: a

text: matter

text: of

text: days

text: But

text: a

text: coordinated

text: initiative

text: will

text: require

text: the

text: U.S.

text: to

text: put

text: up

text: a

text: considerably

text: larger

text: sum

text: My

text: recommendation

text: would

text: be

text: to

text: abandon

text: the

text: idea

text: of

text: reverse

text: auctions

text: for

text: toxic

text: assets

text: and

text: instead

text: use

text: the

text: billion

text: of

text: the

text: recently

text: passed

text: rescue

text: plan

text: for

text: bank

text: recapitalization

text: Although

text: the

text: Great

text: Depression

text: started

text: in

text: it

text: took

text: until

text: for

text: American

text: leaders

text: to

text: grasp

text: this

text: nettle

text: and

text: recapitalize

text: the

text: banks

text: We

text: ca

text: n't

text: afford

text: to

text: wait

text: for

text: years

text: this

text: time

text: around

text: A

text: final

text: thing

text: that

text: made

text: the

text: Great

text: Depression

text: such

text: a

text: catastrophe

text: was

text: that

text: some

text: of

text: the

text: worst

text: shocks

text: occurred

text: right

text: before

text: the

text: presidential

text: election

text: There

text: then

text: followed

text: an

text: extended

text: interregnum

text: between

text: the

text: election

text: and

text: inauguration

text: of

text: the

text: new

text: president

text: when

text: no

text: one

text: was

text: in

text: charge

text: The

text: outgoing

text: president

text: Hoover

text: asked

text: his

text: successor

text: designate

text: Franklin

text: Roosevelt

text: to

text: cooperate

text: with

text: him

text: on

text: joint

text: statements

text: and

text: policies

text: but

text: FDR

text: refused

text: to

text: do

text: so

text: Meanwhile

text: the

text: banking

text: crisis

text: deepened

text: Corporations

text: failed

text: The

text: economy

text: was

text: allowed

text: to

text: spiral

text: downward

text: It

text: was

text: this

text: disaster

text: that

text: led

text: us

text: to

text: amend

text: the

text: constitution

text: to

text: shorten

text: the

text: time

text: between

text: presidential

text: election

text: and

text: inauguration

text: from

text: to

text: 2ÃÂ½

text: months

text: The

text: implication

text: is

text: clear

text: The

text: two

text: presidential

text: candidates

text: should

text: be

text: assembling

text: their

text: financial

text: SWAT

text: teams

text: now

text: Paulson

text: should

text: promise

text: that

text: they

text: will

text: be

text: invited

text: into

text: his

text: office

text: on

text: November

text: This

text: problem

text: can

text: not

text: wait

text: until

text: Inauguration

text: Day

text: The

text: opinions

text: expressed

text: in

text: this

text: commentary

text: are

text: solely

text: those

text: of

text: the

text: writer

question: Who made serious mistakes?

answer: Andrew Mellon,

text: Andrew Mellon,

question: The problem can't wait until what day?

answer: l Inauguratio

text: l Inauguratio

question: What historical event does this person say we should learn from?

answer: The Great Depression

text: The Great Depression

question: Mistakes were made during what time?

answer: Great Depression.

text: Great Depression.

question: By what date must the problem be solved?

answer: n November 5

text: n November 5

question: Events are overtaking the resources of what banks?

answer: Central

text: Central

question: Who knows the lessions of the Depression?

answer: central banks

text: central banks


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(CNN) -- Tzipi Livni, leader of a key Israeli opposition party, said Monday she would be willing to face arrest to challenge the validity of war crimes charges reportedly filed against her in a British court.

"For me, this is not a question," Livni told CNN's Christiane Amanpour, when asked whether she was willing to face arrest. "I mean, yes, the answer is yes. I am."

A British court last year issued an arrest warrant for Livni, leader of Israel's Kadima Party. Details of the warrant were never made public; the warrant was reportedly later dropped.

"I would like this to be, in a way, maybe even a test case, because I'm willing to speak up and to speak about the military operation in Gaza Strip," Livni said.

Livni had served as Israel's foreign minister during an Israeli three-week military offensive against Hamas in Gaza that ended exactly one year ago. The United Nations and some human-rights groups have blamed Israel and Hamas for human rights abuses during the conflict.

But Livni, who is no longer in the Israeli government, defended the former government's decision to go to war, saying that the campaign was needed to confront rocket attacks by Palestinian movement Hamas on Israeli civilians, particularly those living in southern Israel.

"I know that the decisions that we made were crucial to give an answer to Israeli civilians that couldn't live in the south part of Israel and later or even also in different parts of Israel," she said.

"It was part of my responsibility, and this was the right answer. And I'm willing to stand for these reasons and to explain this to -- to the world and to any court."

She said that the Israeli military had already conducted its own investigation into the actions of its soldiers, but that she did not necessarily support a public inquiry in Israel, unless it helped Israeli soldiers when they traveled outside Israel.

"Part of our responsibility is also to defend the Israeli soldiers and officials that worked according to our decision in the government. And if an inquiry helps them, this is fine, so I can support an inquiry, as long as this helps them. It's not about me. It's about the Israeli soldiers, because I want them to leave Israel and to feel free to visit different parts of the world according, you know, to -- like any -- like any other citizen of the free world and any other soldier."

One year after end of fighting in Gaza, Livni said that the Israeli blockade of Gaza would stay in place.

"The blockade on Gaza -- yes. But it's important to say that, when it comes to humanitarian needs, the gates are open," she said.

It was not clear who originally sought the warrant for Livni last year from Westminster Magistrates Court. British legal rules allow arrest warrants to be issued by a court independent of ministerial approval.

The arrest warrant was revoked once it was clear Livni was not in Britain, the BBC reported.

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text: Livni

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text: Israeli

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text: of

text: Gaza

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text: BBC

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question: Livni was Israel's foreign minister during when?

answer: an Israeli three-week military offensive against Hamas in Gaza

text: an Israeli three-week military offensive against Hamas in Gaza

question: Who is leader of the Israeli opposition party?

answer: Livni,

text: Livni,

question: Who is the leader of Israeli opposition party?

answer: Livni,

text: Livni,

question: U.N. has blamed Israel and Hamas for what?

answer: war crimes

text: war crimes

question: Who is blamed for human rights abuse?

answer: Israel and Hamas

text: Israel and Hamas