Blair mentioned as Wolfowitz successor
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LONDON, May 18 Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair was mentioned Friday as a possible successor to Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank.Wolfowitz, embroiled in a dispute involving alleged favoritism toward his girl friend, agreed Thursday to resign and is expected to leave office on June 30.Blair, who stepping down from his prime minister job on June 27, was said by his agent ready to consider quitting Parliament if "a big international" job came up, the Daily Mail said. "He is one of the people that is clearly being discussed," Nobel Prize-winner Joe Stiglitz, a former senior vice president at the World Bank, told the Daily Mail. Copyright 2007 by UPI
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