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...Mark Cuban have a duty to Mamma.com? That question will take center court as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sues Cuban, an Internet entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, for selling his stake in the Web company after the CEO slipped him nonpublic information about an additional stock offering. Cuban, known for his outsize personality, has come out swinging against the SEC and what he calls its "win at any cost ambitions," promising to keep the case - and the murkiness of insider trading law - in the public spotlight in a way not seen since Martha Stewart...
...Mark Cuban, the guy, is just a shareholder - he has no obligation," says Jonathan Macey, a professor of securities law and deputy dean at the Yale School of Management. "The critical question is if anything happened in that phone call that gave rise to a promise." Under an SEC rule adopted in 2000, if Cuban agreed to keep the information confidential, then he had a "duty of trust or confidence...
TIME: Still? Boehner: Yes, no question about it. When you look at all the exit polling, Americans don't want bigger government; they don't want higher taxes. And frankly, I think the Congress is still a center-right Congress. And I do think there will still be some opportunities over the next two years to work with some of the more moderate Democrat members when it comes to the issues of spending and taxes...
...There's also some question of how communities around the nation will react to the new workforce. Many Japanese perceive the nation as ethnically homogeneous, despite the fact that Chinese and Korean minorities have been living here for most of last century. According to a 2006 survey by the Women's Association for the Better Aging Society, nearly 60% of elderly patients prefer to be cared by Japanese caregivers. Even Nakayama, who is looking forward to welcoming his new staff, says, that "kerchiefed Indonesian women will stand out" in his rural area. Police in Aomori visited his facilities after they...
...centers and hospitals as part of a new economic agreement between Japan and Indonesia. The program plans to bring about 800 more Indonesian caregivers to Japan over the next two years - an unprecedented move in a country that has never allowed foreign labor in this large sector before. "The question is whether the labor shortage can be solved by Japanese hands alone," says Yuko Hirano, associate professor of health sociology at Kyushu University. "We need to partially rely on foreigners. This program is a big step for Japan...