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Partha Mohanram, a professor of accounting at Columbia University and an expert on financial disclosure, agrees that firms that co-locate are at a huge advantage because as exchanges are charging for the service, it can't be considered equal access, even if the service is being offered to everyone. "To say that all high-frequency trading is bad and should be banned is an overreaction, but if preferred access is being sold, that is a problem that should be addressed," he says...
...what if big foreign universities like Yale, MIT, Stanford, Columbia Business School and the London School of Economics could set up campus in India? India's new Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, wants to make that happen. Sibal intends to have new laws in place by next July that would open up India's heavily regulated educational system to foreign players, with a goal of building a skilled pool of local managers and workers to help run an economy that continues to grow at a rate of 6.7%. Sibal also intends to make this new wave of higher...
...American society, there's a whole political logic of fairness proportionate to our numbers," says Kenneth Prewitt, a professor of public affairs at Columbia University and former director of the Census Bureau. "This is where that starts." A big score in that regard this year: for the first time the Census will put out a report on the number of people reporting to be in gay marriages...
...Texas cases aren't the only legal woes facing the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Leading members of the Canadian branch of the FLDS, centered in Bountiful, British Columbia, are facing polygamy charges. The men have appealed to Canada's high court saying the law banning polygamy violates the country's freedom of religion clause. Winston Blackmore, the group's self-described "Bishop of Bountiful," is pleading poverty due to a downturn in the community's sawmill business and is asking the Canadian government to foot his million-dollar legal bill...
...surprising that the effects [of prenatal exposure] are so persistent," says Kimberly Gray, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Studies, which helped fund Perera's study. By following these children through age 11, she says, the Columbia team will be able to look for links to learning disorders and attention-deficit disorder...