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Orleans' Geithner facing DC test;; Golf Clubs lower fees; Businesses support cancer drive; PBS series on Wampanoags

TODAY's quote: "He is making decisions in areas where if you get it right 60-70 percent of the time, you are extraordinary. That means you are wrong 30-40 percent of the time." - Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan speaking about Timothy Geithner

Tim Geithner facing own stress test amid economic woes
Grandson of Orleans' selectman is battling barbarians

It was at Dartmouth that Geithner met Carole Sonneberg, now a social worker. The two were married at his parents' summer home on Cape Cod, with Geithner's father serving as best man.

In any other year, Timothy Geithner already would have spent a week at tennis camp in Florida, sharpening his skills and kicking back with a group of friends that includes the mentor who helped put him on the fast track to the top of the Treasury Department.

Instead, Barack Obama's 47-year-old treasury secretary is in his office before dawn most days, grabbing lunch at his desk and juggling three Blackberries as he tries to untangle the wreckage of a financial system gone sour...

"Nothing has seemed to blow him off course," says Lee Sachs, a friend who worked with Geithner at Treasury during the Clinton years and is back in the department.

Geithner was a twentysomething whiz kid when he first came knocking on the department's doors in 1988. He had outgrown his first job as a grunt at Kissinger Associates but he wasn't ready to be one of its big-money rainmakers.

So Geithner signed on as a civil servant in the Treasury's trade office during the Reagan administration. Within a decade, he was on track to become the boss of the man who had hired him. Within two, he was fending off Obama's entreaties to become treasury secretary... International Herald Tribune.

EDITOR's NOTE: Timothy Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company. Upon his retirement, he moved back to Orleans and became a selectman for many years. Timothy's parents, Peter and Deborah Moore Geithner, live in Orleans where the Moore family roots go back to the 18th century. Tim Geithner himself owns a summer home in Orleans.
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Why some private clubs are waiving good-bye to steep membership initiation fees

At the start of 2009, the Golf Club of Cape Cod waived its initiation fee for new members -- an $85,000 nut reduced to a free pass because the club had trouble attracting new members.

The struggling economy has taken a toll on private clubs -- 10 to 15 percent admit facing serious financial challenges, according to the National Golf Foundation -- but the downturn means clubs are more willing than ever to offer incentives or waive fees for new members. "Club pros and general managers are going to have to get very creative to sustain their memberships, especially over the next few months," says Adam Scott... Golf.com.
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Business support key to breast cancer fund-raiser's success

Cheryl Osimo, outreach coordinator for Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and co-founder of its sister organization Silent Spring, is busy organizing the details for the 11th annual Against the Tide fund-raiser Aug. 15 that benefits MBCC and its work in preventing breast cancer, which has high rates on Cape Cod. One in seven women will get breast cancer, according to national statistics. Some towns on the Cape have a 21 percent higher rate than the state average, Osimo said.

The one-mile recreational and competitive swims, two-mile kayak and three-mile fitness walk at Nickerson State Park in Brewster raises money for MBCC through pledges from participants... The Register.
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Neither nobles nor savages
In the five-part series 'We Shall Remain,' WGBH aims to put Native Americans at the center of the American experience

On a steamy day last summer, the reproduction Colonial cottages at Salem's Pioneer Village buzzed with modern-day activity: cameras and boom mikes and makeup artists, real chickens, and a deer made of foam. Actors playing Pilgrims, bearing the heat beneath thick woolen coats, milled about a table set with berries and nuts. Native Americans in traditional garb lounged near a rental truck, waiting to be called into action.

Their task: to re-create the first Thanksgiving for "American Experience," the public-television history series produced by WGBH. But this retelling - part of the upcoming series "We Shall Remain" - would be different from other Thanksgiving stories. It would be told from the point of view of Massasoit, the Wampanoag leader who made the risky choice to forge an alliance with the British colonists of Plymouth... Globe.