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...other self-regulators historically have played it safe in their enforcement," says Columbia's Coffee. (Self-regulatory organizations do not usually draw their authority directly from Congress, and may be financed by the industry they cover.) "FINRA's been tougher than its predecessors, but it still tends to focus more on outlying and smaller firms; it's been more deferential to the bigger players. At SEC, she has to clean house and needs truly aggressive prosecutors." (See who's to blame for the current financial crisis...
Shortly after the European Management Forum was founded, world events began to shift the focus of the annual meetings to encompass more global issues. The collapse of the Bretton Woods fixed exchange system, which pegged the value of foreign currencies to the US dollar, and the Arab-Israeli War in 1973 introduced political and economic elements to the Davos discussions, and political leaders joined the European businessmen at the following meeting in January 1974. By 1976, membership in the forum was extended to the "1,000 leading companies of the world...
...freshman tandem of Gridley and Camille Jania triumphed, 8-3, in the No. 3 spot. “The doubles tactics paid off, and we executed,” Harvard coach Traci Green said. “That’s one of our goals—to focus on doubles points and come out aggressively.” In the ensuing singles portion, the Crimson won two of the first four matches to take a 3-2 lead. Jania and sophomore Samantha Rosekrans suffered straight-set defeats in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots, respectively...
...Nuclear weapons have tended to prevent or contain conflicts between those nations that possess them. Today's nuclear nightmare tends to focus less on a doomsday exchange with similarly armed rival states than on the nightmare of "loose nukes" falling into the hands of terrorists unaligned with any state and therefore beyond the reach of deterrence. A new batch of nuclear weapons, unfortunately, isn't going to change that...
Such criticisms are not confined to temporal seats of power. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has called on the BBC to carry the appeal. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, argued that the BBC should focus on humanity, not impartiality. "The situation is akin to that of British military hospitals who treat prisoners of war as a result of their duty under the Geneva Convention," said Sentamu. "They do so because they identify need rather than cause. This is not an appeal by Hamas asking for arms but by the Disasters Emergency Committee asking for relief. By declining their...