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To a surprising degree, China appears to still be listening. It's true that at a meeting in Beijing late last week of Asian and European leaders premier Wen Jiabao called for more global regulation of financial markets, but that's become conventional wisdom pretty much everywhere. "Few among Beijing...
Beijing certainly isn't backing off. Earlier this month, China announced it would proceed with a trial period allowing domestic financial institutions to experiment with short selling and margin trades (using borrowed money to invest). The decision came, ironically enough, after the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission had for a...
But the sex-and-misconduct scandal was hardly Kilpatrick's first brush with controversy. At 31, he was the youngest mayor in Detroit's history - alternately dubbed "King Kwame" and the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" - and seemed to embody the glamorous lifestyle of a paparazzi-starved star. He...
"If it was not Kwame Kilpatrick sitting in that seat - if it was John Six-Pack sitting in the seat - what would I do? And the answer is simple." - Judge Ronald Giles, on his decision to sentence Kilpatrick to a night in jail after Kilpatrick violated his bond by crossing...
Analysts in the region suspect that the decision to mount a cross-border raid into Syria was driven more by the military needs of Army commanders in Iraq than by political calculations from Washington. According to the analysts, the Joint Special Operations Command has considerable autonomy in choosing missions in...