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...Western Wall, they found and removed dozens of skeletons from a Muslim graveyard without properly documenting the find, according to Haaretz, an Israeli daily. The skeletons have since gone missing. After a barrage of complaints against the IAA by academics, Palestinians and civil rights groups, the agency's chairman, Professor Benjamin Kedar, conceded in a statement that the IAA is "aware that Elad - an association with a pronounced ideological agenda - has presented the history of the City of David in a biased manner." So far, though, the cash-strapped IAA says it has no plans to review its ties with...
...such risky businesses as proprietary trading and hedge-fund and private-equity-fund investing (all three activities contain some element of trading or investing for the firm's own account, possibly employing leverage). Many have dismissed the so-called Volcker rule, which Obama named for former Federal Reserve chairman and current presidential adviser Paul Volcker (who has championed the proposal), as unnecessary. They say proprietary trading played a very limited role in causing the financial crisis, that poor lending and underwriting were more to blame...
Indeed, a number of former and current Wall Streeters have come out in favor of limiting proprietary trading by banks. At the Senate hearing on Thursday, former chairman of Citigroup John Reed said he supported a Volcker-rule-like separation of financial firms. "The industry should be compartmentalized so as to limit the propagation of failures and also to preserve cultural boundaries," Reed told Senators...
...think that it’s very true, and I hope that as chairman of the party he can make sure that the Republican candidates heading into 2010 are doing exactly that and also continue to do that once they get elected,” Isaacson said...
...definitely think bringing in the Republican Party chairman is bringing Harvard out of its comfort zone, which is a good thing,” said D. Scott Darnell, the vice-chair of the Kennedy School Republican Caucus, one of the sponsors of the event...