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Paul Wolfowitz, Bush's appointee to the presidency of the World Bank, stands accused of using his position to get big raises and cushy jobs for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a fellow Bank employee.

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Paul Wolfowitz, Bush's appointee to the presidency of the World Bank, stands accused of using his position to get big raises and cushy jobs for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, a fellow Bank employee. The Bank bureaucracy is united against Wolfowitz, as are the usual suspects in the press. But even a cursory examination of the evidence shows that the case against Wolfowitz has no basis in fact. Wolfowitz was already involved with Riza--a longtime Bank employee--when he arrived in 2005. He told the Bank's directors about the relationship before he took the job and further told them that he wanted to recuse himself from decisions involving her. The directors felt that Riza should ...

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