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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>From <a href="http://www.worldbankpresident.org/">www.worldbankpresident.org</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“This morning's reports have the <a
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117995039149812427.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">Wall
Street Journal </a>saying that <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Bill Frist,
the former Senator from Tennessee, Senate Majority Leader, and healthcare
tycoon, is "getting especially close scrutiny for the job" of World
Bank president.”</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The complete WBP article is at <a
href="http://www.worldbankpresident.org/archives/000798.php">http://www.worldbankpresident.org/archives/000798.php</a>;
and the WSJ article is at <a
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117995039149812427.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117995039149812427.html?mod=googlenews_wsj</a>.
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>One can only guess what Frist might do to the Bank’s health
reform agenda – and a lot of the other candidates being mooted would be
equally disastrous, across a wider range of issues (eg John Bolton, or former
US Trade Representative Zoellick, who was the leading arm-twister of developing
countries in WTO negotiations).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Who is selected is critically important to health in the developing
world – and that makes the selection process equally important. Despite
opposition from some Board members, and major civil society efforts, it looks
likely that it will still b a stitch-up by the Bush administration. Please do
everything you can to exert pressure on your governments and Executive
Directors to the Bank (and the IMF) to ensure an open, transparent and merit
based selection process, such as the one endorsed by the Executive Board in
2001, but strenuously ignored when Wolfowitz was appointed. You can find this
at <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/spring/2001/imfc/select.htm">http://www.imf.org/external/spring/2001/imfc/select.htm</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>David<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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