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...Sunday’s semifinal bouts and the season-ending championships, with junior co-captain J.P. O’Connor and sophomore Corey Janzten taking second, while junior co-captain Louis Caputo notched a third-place finish.Top-seeded O’Connor—also No. 4 in the nation at 157 lbs.—looked to avenge a loss in last year’s 149 lbs. finals, using a fall and two decisions to earn a matchup with No. 5 Jordan Leen of Cornell. Although O’Connor topped the second-seed 7-5 earlier this...
...pleased with his performance, but felt that he could have done better. “I did alright,” Weiler said. “It was a pretty even competition. I’m not too happy that I didn’t make the qualifying for nationals, but I was glad that I won.” Weiler won the competition, narrowly edging Connecticut College’s Kyle Duggan. “We were both really tired, so I guess that’s just how it played out,” Weiler said. Not qualifying...
...opponents hope to make government snooping a costly offense. Legislation has been introduced in Santa Fe that would prohibit any New Mexico law enforcement agency from collecting information about the religious, political and social associations of law-abiding New Mexicans. And in what would be a first for the nation, the bill would allow private citizens to sue law enforcement agencies for damages over the unauthorized collection of such data...
...stimulus package to be spent by 2010 on "upgrading, modifying, or constructing" state and local fusion centers. The latest fusion center, the $21 million Port of Long Beach facility, opened last month. Staffed by local, state and federal officials, it sits on a small swath of land inside the nation's second largest port and utilizes state of the art surveillance technology, including cameras that can read a badge from two miles away. Every state but Idaho and Pennsylvania has at least one fusion center; Texas, for instance, has its Texas Intelligence Center within the Texas Department of Public Safety...
...even many of his former hedge-fund backers aren't particularly happy. As Dodd and House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank work to craft legislation overhauling the nation's banking and securities regulations, Dodd's populist ploys give many on Wall Street pause. "The competition for capital and talent is now global. What we saw when the Senate inserted the executive-compensation restrictions was a cause and effect," Tom Quaadman, who works on financial-sector issues at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says, pointing to examples of companies like Deutsche Bank and UBS poaching U.S. talent driven away...