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...case is on appeal from the Third Circuit, which ruled that the board could never use diversity as a reason for making employment decisions based on race. The brief asks the Court to "reject the unnecessarily broad pronouncement" made by the lower court...
...N.Y.S.E. has adopted a flight of funny-named trading curbs: "collars" prevent certain computerized stock trading when the Dow is up or down 50 points in a day; the "sidecar" rule gives small orders priority when the market is moving briskly; and "circuit breakers" halt trading for 30 minutes when the Dow is down 350 points and for one hour when it is down 550 points. The curbs ensure that investors have time to think. But at the end of the day, if what they think is that they should sell, their brokers, the fund companies and the exchanges...
...business and not have every little schlocky guy around ripping off Elvis and putting his face on edible underwear and all kinds of things that demean the long-term value of what we've got." One of these cases went all the way to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, which in an oft-cited landmark 1991 case involving a British retailer named Elvisly Yours--yes, they were selling edible Elvis panties--upheld the Tennessee...
Though in common they have youth, a propensity for bleak subject matter and an ability to write beautifully about it, the three playwrights are very different. Marber, a Londoner who got his start on the comedy circuit performing stand-up and working with the popular television comedian Steve Coogan, crafts intricately layered, well-observed, heartfelt plays in a realistic vein about contemporary relationships. McDonagh is more a folkwriter in the tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal...
...apparently stole from a K Mart parking lot off I-95 in Florence, S.C. Law-enforcement officials soon began picking up evidence that Cunanan, who had been placed on the FBI's ten-most-wanted list, was in South Florida, where many witnesses saw him on the club circuit...