Word: courtelis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...burgeoning derivatives market, the banking lobby, with some help from hedge funds and investment banks, quickly thwarted the measure. And Cox's predecessor at the SEC, William Donaldson, encountered stiff opposition when he tried to push more pro-shareholder measures and subject hedge funds to more oversight. When a court struck down Donaldson's hedge fund registration rule, Cox announced that the SEC would not seek to appeal the ruling - he took the same no-appeal tact when a court shot down an SEC effort to make mutual funds appoint independent chairman. On the other hand, certain types of enforcement...
This alternate history, a bizarro Harvard, spreads across all playing fields. Imagine the smell of lacquer stinging the air, Lavietes packed and pulsating to the chants of “DEFENSE!” Harvard corrals a rebound and brings the ball up court. It’s passed around the perimeter until the ball ends up in the reliable hands of Wally Szczerbiak. The forward rises up and fires a high, arching three-pointer. The ball floats in the air, spinning like a rubber globe as it falls towards the hoop, kisses the back rim, and swishes gently through...
Ginsburg also gave the audience an insider’s view of the current Supreme Court, praising the warmth and support of her fellow justices during her fight against cancer...
...different as we are in the way we approach some very hard questions, the court is a genuinely collegial place—more collegial than any law faculty,” said Ginsburg to laughter and applause. “And we genuinely like and care, not just respect, but care about each other...
...Harvard, our alma mater has a checkered history when it comes to LGBT issues. As detailed in William Wright’s Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals, a book inspired by a story uncovered by an intrepid reporter for The Crimson, the university once carried out active purges of its LGBT members. Those from the classes of 1970 and before, who attended Harvard pre-Stonewall—Stonewall being the 1969 New York riot which moved the modern LGBT rights movement towards a strategy based on widespread “coming out?...