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...financial crisis is a great opportunity to build out our franchise," says Shawn Matthews, the chief executive of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., the firm's investment banking subsidiary. "The dislocation in the financial markets has caused others to take the eye off the ball, allowing us to gain market share." The parent company is still headed by Howard Lutnick, who is the CEO of Cantor and chairman of a publicly traded subsidiary BGC Partners, which is 40% owned by Cantor. Lutnick was famously taking his son to his first day of kindergarten on September 11 and not in Cantor's offices...
...advocate stopping hunting because it's a cultural thing. You have to remember that traditionally, animals have been hunted and used without problem for thousands and thousands of years. Native peoples use walruses for food. They build boats out of their hide. And ivory has been a means of income - a bartering tool - for generations. But then there are the people who will kill an entire walrus just for its ivory tucks, and that is illegal. It's not hunting that's the problem, it's the wastefulness and the indiscriminate nature of hunting. [At the same time], hunters...
...That same area of the brain is also strongly interconnected with neural networks that regulate some of the body's most basic functions, such as breathing and blood pressure, which indicates that complex social emotions build on systems that evolved early, including those essential to our survival. "It is important to realize that they recruit the brain in a very deep manner," says Antonio Damasio, one of the authors of the study published online this week in the Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences and the director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at University of Southern California...
...very excited and honored to host His Holiness, so a local Tibetan carpenter and tailor built a throne for His Holiness,” said Pema T. Shastri, a spokesman for the Tibetan Association of Boston. “It has taken several months to build the throne.” Sangay said he hopes the throne will eventually be placed in a Tibetan Heritage Center, which the Association plans to build in the next few years. He added that he believes the careful planning will result in a educational and exciting experience for the Harvard community...
Morales' foes say the measure simply gives him a larger advantage in the presidential election slated for December. But if Morales really can build a legitimate case that his political opponents were behind the "mercenaries" at the Hotel de las Americas, they'll have even bigger campaign problems to worry about...