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...Board wants to make trading more convenient for foreigners by having its hours coincide with more of their hours. At 9:30 a.m. in New York, for example, it is already 3:30 in the afternoon in Paris. The 9:30 start, however, will be tough on West Coast brokers, who must now start their trading day at 6:30 a.m. SCANDALS Christie's False Impression...
...harder for Fox to trumpet his accomplishments when criminals like El Verdugo are on the loose. According to Mexican officials, Lazcano was a clean-cut Mexican army recruit from the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz when he was picked a decade ago to be part of the highly trained Airborne Special Forces Group. The unit was sent to the eastern border to battle drug trafficking. But in the late 1990s, Lazcano and more than 30 other members of the special forces began working for drug lord Osiel Cárdenas, head of the Matamoros-based Gulf cartel, which at the time...
...stores would no longer stock products from Japanese companies whose top brass are associated with a group sympathetic to the new textbook. Meanwhile, Seoul?where people were already angry that a Japanese prefecture recently claimed a remote rocky islet as its own, even though the Korean coast guard has been patrolling it for 57 years?reacted with similar indignation. Particularly galling to South Koreans was that Japan's education czars had directed four Japanese textbook publishers to refer to the disputed island as Japanese territory...
...choice Republicans are thriving in New England, the Midwest, and on the West Coast. Savvy GOP leaders recognize that supporting stronger candidates who happen to disagree with their platform on abortion is the means to an even larger victory: majority-status, and policy-making power, for a still fundamentally anti-choice party. And the Patakis and Murkowskis are useful symbols in getting millions of abortion rights supporters to vote against their own interests...
Despite an onslaught of international media coverage months earlier, last month’s earthquake in Indonesia received an alarming lack of thorough media coverage. The death toll of the 8.7 magnitude earthquake, which hit 125 miles off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is estimated at over 1,000, minimal in comparison to the 270,000 casualties of this past December’s tsunami. While the earthquake did not cause the widespread devastation seen in the previous earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the island of Nias was ravaged...