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...Cuomo will have a higher bar to clear if he's looking for wrongdoing outside the proxy statements. In general securities-fraud cases, it must be proven that executives of a company knew that a piece of information was material and created a scheme to make sure shareholders didn't find out about it. Certainly if Lewis or others were found guilty of that they would face stiff penalties. What's more, judges typically are more likely to ban, at least temporarily, executives of financial-services companies who are found in violation of securities-fraud laws because it is considered...
...this pose quite a challenge to any translator, particularly one attempting to shift the paradoxically melodious and halting prosody of Danish into English. In many ways, its no wonder “Azorno” has gone untranslated for so many decades—I only wish I knew what transformations the Danish words underwent in the original, and how Newman’s version compares. Christensen is constantly playing with language puzzles, and it is Newman’s task to maintain this play with an entirely different set of pieces. A paragraph might break down into a single...
Leon Panetta knew it was going to be a hard sale, and so the CIA director dished out some serious hard sell as he tried to drum up support for the agency from Arab Americans in the most Arab city in the country. On Wednesday, the CIA invited 150 community leaders in Dearborn, Mich., to a lavish iftar, the traditional evening feast at the end of each day's fasting during the month of Ramadan. The CIA and the FBI have made strenuous efforts to sign up Arab Americans in recent years, but the suspicions and recriminations since 9/11 have...
...performers, and Harvard graduates, including John H. Updike ’54 and former Mass. Governor William F. Weld ’66. When Albert R. LaFarge of the Albert LaFarge literary agency saw Lotman’s proposal, he said that he “instantly” knew that it should be published. “I believe every great book begins with a community,” LaFarge said. “There is a component of oral history that makes [“Harvard Square”] more than just an art book...
Unlimited booze, enduring glory? Damn it, we knew it was too good to last...