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True, the American writ does not extend everywhere. The dictators of Iraq, Burma and North Korea, for example, are beyond its reach. But within the Western sphere, surely, there is no hiding from American power. Those who run afoul of it are not imprisoned on Elba or St. Helena; they are jailed in Miami (Manuel Noriega) or in more cosmopolitan quarters in the Netherlands...
...recent years the Department of Labor, which enforces ERISA, has softened in this area, going so far as to offer guidelines as to how a company might offer 401(k) advice without running afoul of the rules. But now there's a full-on assault, spearheaded by Republican Congressman John Boehner of Ohio, who in mid-June introduced a bill that seeks to remove a company's liability should an employee take bad advice and lose a bundle. If all goes swimmingly, the bill could reach the President's desk by year...
...recent years the Department of Labor, which enforces ERISA, has softened in this area, going so far as to offer guidelines as to how a company might offer 401(k) advice without running afoul of the rules. But now there's a full-on assault, spearheaded by Republican Congressman John Boehner of Ohio, who in mid-June introduced a bill that seeks to remove a company's liability should an employee take bad advice and lose a bundle. If all goes swimmingly, the bill could reach the President's desk by year...
Alas, Bannon's schoolboy interest in procuring beer was his eventual undoing. Weeks later, he ran afoul of Andover's zero-tolerance alcohol ban and was booted out of the school. (Interestingly, Vanity Fair reports that Tweeds' brother Jeb, busted for alcohol a few years later, was permitted to stay on. Go figure.) Bannon may not have left Andover with a diploma, but he didn't leave empty handed: he had his ID. Unbowed by his first run-in with authority, he set out to dupe barkeeps across the country...
...first film as actor-director, Kitano played a policeman too violent for his department; in his next, the 1990 Boiling Point, he's Uehara, a gangster too violent for the yakuza. The movie is mainly about two baseball-crazy kids who run afoul of the mob; Kitano shows up for about a half hour before some unfriendly types splatter him across his car upholstery. But this wild man had it coming. In an interlude between gunplay, he watches a couple have sex. "My turn," he chirps. He pushes the woman aside?and jumps...