Fate worse than Saddam. (Off The News).

Long-time Washington insider and most recently Michigan State University President Peter McPherson agreed earlier this year to take on the assignment in Iraq as financial coordinator for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, helping rebuild Iraq's finance ministry, central bank, and banking system. TIE can attest that McPherson is an extraordinarily talented operations expert who served with distinction as simultaneous head of the Agency for International Development and Overseas Private Investment Corporation during the Reagan Administration, an