Tim Geithner Is Not Too Good To [Verb] His Own [Noun]

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The answer we were looking for was to "fetch" his own "coffee." Fetch and coffee. Not braid/hair, S/D, shave/legs, pack/lunch though all those might be accurate. Today it's fetch/coffee.

At 8:30 a.m. Monday-a half hour before he was scheduled to speak at the Time Warner Economic Summit-Geithner pulled up in a dark blue SUV around the corner from the Time Warner Center in midtown Manhattan. From inside a Starbucks across the way, I watched Geithner pop out of the back seat and walk briskly across 60th Street into the Starbucks, followed by two men (presumably his security detail). The line was at least ten people deep. But Geithner stood by himself in the queue with everyone else and focused on his BlackBerry until it was his turn to order and pay. If anyone recognized the Treasury Secretary, they didn't make a fuss.

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