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Federal guidelines recommend that insider-trading sentences include between 37 months to 46 months of prison time, but such guidelines are advisory and not binding. The charge can result in a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison...
...long run, the failure to find a meaningful deterrent for North Korean provocations may mean Kim will become bolder in his stunts, which are geared to extort maximum aid from the countries threatened by his saber rattling. Jing Huang, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington says he thinks China's patience may be wearing thin. "This missile crisis will be the beginning of the end," Huang predicts. "It is forcing Beijing to see [that] the consequences of North Korea's actions are all bad for China." Says Green: "I think China is going to exert far more...
...When Tejas Pathak leaves his hospital bed and joins the great swarm of commuters once again in quest of the golden songbird, the least that his government owes him is that his commute has a modicum of comfort and the maximum of safety. Bombayites, in responding to terror, have shown the world their best. Now it's their government's turn to follow suit...
...constantly engage donors. The result is that lobbyists and high net-worth individuals receive far more face time, attention, and legislation than virtually anyone else.The irony in all of this is that the monetary value of intern labor, $4,800 per person per summer, is actually greater than the maximum campaign contribution of $4,200 per election cycle permitted by law. (That’s $2,100 in the primary and $2,100 in the general, for those counting.) But most of us interns will never even have a conversation with a legislator, let alone influence legislation. My real political...
...voters in the six states with ballot initiatives. All would increase the minimum wage to at least $6.15, and all are good bets to pass. It's less clear whether the Democrats can convert that support into backing for the party. If the minimum wage doesn't generate maximum anger against the Republicans, low-income workers may find themselves with bigger paychecks, but congressional Democrats may be right back where they began--in the minority...