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Fenn expects this trend to continue in 2010 when a new rule, approved by the NYSE and the SEC, goes into effect and no longer allows brokers to vote shares if they haven't received specific instructions from the shareholder on how to vote those shares. In the past, Fenn says, brokers were allowed to use their own discretion to vote shares and "typically voted management's slate" of directors...
...people are discovering a newfound pride in their heritage. They needn’t look to the West for expressions of their modernized selves but can instead draw from their nation’s past. When Indians hear American accents in shopping malls and hotel bars, they no longer accommodate and kowtow. Instead, they ask how Americans are responding to the downturn after causing worldwide economic collapse. My high-school self would certainly have been pleased...
...basis for long-term stability in the relationship between the two peoples. But he's happy to go through the motions on his own terms. "There'll ... be some kind of handshake, because this is what Obama wants," an Israeli official told Reuters. "But it's not going anywhere longer term ... With all due respect to Obama, this is not realistic. Everyone wants a process ... but nobody actually wants peace - because peace you have to pay for." (Read about the Gaza blockade and Egypt's Rafah Crossing...
...brother Bobby who drowned when Kennedy drove his car off a bridge. Rather than call for help, he hid out until the next morning. When Kennedy died, I could have, and maybe should have, been more sympathetic. I should not have yelled out, "You lived 40 years longer than she did, Kennedy!" But all I can think about is that July 18, 1969, night. If he by some miracle should see Kopechne in heaven, he should apologize profusely. Stewart Perry, WAYZATA, MINN...
...Mehsud, the head of the Pakistani Taliban and a key al-Qaeda ally, was killed in a remote part of South Waziristan. Mehsud's death has sown discord among his followers, with the new leader struggling to maintain control of the increasingly fractious alliance. The tribal areas "can no longer be described as a safe haven," says a senior Western diplomat with approval...