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...night music programming encourages female viewers who are not allowed to go out to instead organize parties at home with girlfriends. Over in the editing suite, Western music videos are cleaned up according to the "4-3-2-1 rule": close-ups of a bikini are O.K. for 1 sec. but not 2; 3 sec. in a moving shot works...
...biggest banking reforms in U.S. history, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999. The legislation allowed banks to affiliate freely with securities and insurance firms and included new privacy regulations for financial institutions.“Jim always had good reasons,” Cox, the SEC chairman, said. “He didn’t always convince everyone he talked to, but he never lost an argument.”Former Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (R-Fla.), a House colleague of Leach for 26 years, said Leach’s quiet manner had helped him carry...
Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), told a small audience at the Institute of Politics last night he is wary of the increasing role of government-controlled corporations and sovereign wealth funds in U.S. markets. Speaking in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), Cox said such corporations and wealth funds are growing relative to their private counterparts. He added that foreign governments pose the greatest risk, citing government-controlled firms in which private investors hold a minority stake...
Many of HMC’s publicly-traded investments, however, are already made public due to regular disclosures Harvard is forced to make to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). To maintain some secrecy, these disclosures are lagged by about six weeks, though they occur quarterly and are archived in readily accessible databases like the SEC’s online EDGAR database. Any motivated investigator could satiate their curiosity about HMC’s publicly-traded balance sheet two months ago fairly easily. In fact, The Crimson has reported on Harvard’s investments in companies connected to Darfur...
Last month a group of major institutional investors and green groups took steps to start fixing the problem, petitioning the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require public companies to fully disclose their financial risks from climate change. That was followed on Oct. 9 by the launch of the Supply Chain Leadership Coalition, a new grouping of large multinationals, including Nestl and Unilever, formed to encourage suppliers to detail their greenhouse-gas emissions. Both groups argue that climate risk should become an essential part of financial reporting, no different from a price-to-earnings ratio. "This is about being able...