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...Cuban case is, in effect, a high-stakes game of he said-she said. But even if the SEC's version of events holds up in court, there is still a chance that the case could keep going. Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at UCLA who has followed insider trading law for two decades and written a book on the topic, points out that the case law around whether or not a contract of confidentiality suffices for illegal insider trading "is not as clear as one would like." Some court findings, he says, suggest that it's not enough...
...symptoms. As the Committee explains, "Gulf War illness does not fit neatly into our current concepts of disease. The underlying pathobiology of Gulf War illness is not apparent from routine clinical tests, and the illness appears not to be the result of a single cause producing a well-known effect." While the military insisted for years that GWI was another form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), the panel concluded that there is no link between the two conditions. In fact, studies have shown that Gulf War veterans have lower rates of PTSD than veterans of other wars...
Socioeconomic quotas for next year’s kindergarten classes will be based on current enrollment statistics—not the prior year’s statistics, as is normally the case—the Cambridge Public School Committee voted last night. The change will stay in effect indefinitely, until a more comprehensive decision on Cambridge’s long-standing “controlled choice” policy is reached in the spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that...
...would amend the governor's bill to extend the law to children as old as 30 days. (Some legislators wanted the limit to be a year or more.) Chairman Brad Ashford said he expected vigorous debate and further amendments. A 24-hour cooling-off period will then go into effect before a final vote comes on Friday...
...industry. "Given the fragile state the supply base is in today, with a lot of them already in bankruptcy, it would likely take the entire industry down. Not because the other manufacturers would fail but because the suppliers would go down. We've been concerned about the cascade effect...