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...held by companies including Sony and Warner Bros and awarded the companies $22,500 per song downloaded. The jurors—instructed to decide only the willfulness of Tenenbaum's actions and the amount of damages to be paid—reached their conclusion in about three hours last Friday...
...expletive-laden rant Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner unleashed during a closed meeting with regulators on Friday, July 31, has players in Washington and on Wall Street wondering one thing: What got the usually mild-mannered Geithner so incensed? Establishing a new regulatory framework for the financial markets is not the kind of politically charged, life-or-death issue that should drive a normally discreet Cabinet member to go on a blue streak in front of dozens of officials. But Geithner and the Obama Administration have more at stake in getting reform pushed through Congress by the end of the year...
...tense meeting, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, took place at the Treasury department Friday afternoon and was attended by top regulators from all the major oversight bodies, including the FDIC, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the SEC, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the Fed and others. As he talked about the state of the Administration's proposal introduced last spring, Geithner started swearing about the need for regulatory reform to move forward. "There was liberal use of expletives," says an official briefed on the meeting. "Obviously it made some people uncomfortable." (See 25 people...
...alleging that the revelers had torn the pages of the Koran and thrown them in the air. No evidence has emerged that this actually happened. But the mere suggestion appeared to set off days of rioting. Christian homes in Korian were torched before the violence spread to Gojra. Last Friday, Christian residents say, the preacher at a nearby mosque issued a fiery sermon inciting violence against them. The police visited the Christian community later that night, warning them of possible violence the next day. Some left that very night. But it appears others didn't receive the warning and were...
Aquino was arraigned in the Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday afternoon on a fugitive affidavit—wearing the same white-and-blue-striped shirt that he wore at today’s hearing—and agreed to be extradited to Massachusetts...