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...traders who couldn't care less whether bulletin-board messages are true or not. They buy or sell a stock simply because it's moving in a given direction. As long as the information moves the market, they may be willing to act on it. "Traders today are willingly complicit in the dissemination of false information," says John Coffee, an expert on Internet securities fraud at Columbia University Law School. "That's why they often flock to [the] chat rooms with the worst information, so they can find material that will destabilize the market one minute before they profitably pull...
Will the L.A.P.D. be able to put its house in order? Critics of the department are skeptical. "The L.A.P.D. investigators have intractable conflicts of interest. They're complicit in what has happened," says Los Angeles civil rights lawyer Michael Mitchell. "The supervisors are afraid they won't be able to put a lid on it." But with the public clamoring for answers--and the FBI involved--it may be difficult to fight off the tide of reform...
...politically apathetic, we're told by countless pundits who 30 years ago proved conclusively the virtues of the same apathy they now decry. But political apathy isn't as much the problem as is intellectual lethargy--a much more troubling ailment in which so many Core courses are complicit...
...party that had reservations about free trade, immigration and affirmative action. It required a new party, Unity (an small offshoot of the Labor party), to be formed in order for there to be a vocal and unremitting attack on Hanson. One cannot help but fear that this same complicit silence may descend into mainstream American politics. Given the "disappearance" of Buchanan from the mainstream press over the last month, the American conscience should be on high alert to the Australian danger...
...stopped making things and focused on buying them, they no longer knew how to be men. For this, Faludi blames "the culture," which, the last time I checked, is controlled by white men. But when I called Faludi, she warned against such finger pointing. "We're all complicit in a culture that disfigures people. Most of us participate as consumers," she said. "The blame game is too easy. People should deal with a more complex dynamic than 'Who are we going to put on a wanted poster?'" Wanted posters sound good and manly...