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...commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock-market regulator, branded AIM a "casino," with 30% of new firms "gone in a year." (He later said his remarks had been taken out of context.) To the LSE, such talk is just sour grapes. U.S. markets should accept that "the flow of capital is global and will seek out the most efficient and effective market places," Clara Furse, the exchange's chief, wrote in the Financial Times in late March...
...being courted by Condoleezza Rice in her belated effort to unstick the Middle East peace process, but also the Saudi Arabians--the implacable Alpha Arabs--were again holding out the possibility of diplomatic recognition in return for a settlement with the Palestinians (on terms Israel could never accept, but it was a start). So I asked the Prime Minister if he might leverage his utter unpopularity into something positive with a dramatic grand gesture--after all, what did he have to lose? Olmert was skeptical: "Even if [I] have something in mind that might be headlined as dramatic, it will...
...merciless minefield. Hillary Clinton's disastrous effort to transform the system in her husband's first term nearly cost him the presidency. After that, politicians pretty much stopped talking about the subject except to offer marginal and politically unassailable fixes, like covering more children or requiring insurance companies to accept people with pre-existing health conditions...
...story of fear, lack of compassion and America-only policies abroad. And it is fundamentally an untrue story about who we are as a people, but it has been repeated so often on TV and in the press that many in the U.S. have come to accept...
...College plans to have its annual visiting program for admitted students from April 21 to 23. Until then, accepted students have access to online chat sessions and message boards to get in touch with potential classmates. Students have until May 1 to accept or reject their offer from Harvard. —Staff writer Aditi Balakrishna can be reached at balakris@fas.harvard.edu...