Word: insiderism
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Gary J. Aguirre had to apply 24 times to become a staff attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission, but it only took his first case to make him realize that this was not his public service dream come true. The assignment was heady stuff, a hedge fund insider-trading...
Through Aguirre's persistence, the ensuing spat spilled over to Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee ended up holding three hearings, and in early August issued - jointly with the Finance Committee - a damning, 108-page report that largely backs up Aguirre's allegations of outside interference in an SEC investigation...
But the justices aren't likely to warm to the supporters' argument. First, they've already ruled that Guantanamo operates as part of the U.S. in most ways relevant to this case. Second, they don't much like the Administrations record on terrorism. The abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib...
Now, as a Fenway Park tour guide spouting trivia and anecdotes about the U.S.’s oldest ballpark for hundreds of visitors a day, I am feeding my inner fan’s appetite for insider access. Many fans listening to the park’s history are...
To understand the role that scripture plays in debates over the New Sanctuary Movement, it helps to be familiar with an insider term: prooftexting - the cherry-picking of Biblical quotations out of context in order to claim scriptural authority for a particular proposition.