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COSMIC COLLISION An asteroid 106 miles in diameter ran into a 37-mile asteroid 160 million years ago at a speed of 1.89 miles per sec., creating an asteroid set called the Baptistina family...
...meaning of that day. In every year since, TIFF has commemorated 9/11 with politically pointed films - on the Iraq occupation, the Bush Administration, America's stooped standing in the world - beginning in 2002 with 11'09"01, in which 11 directors each made a film of 11 min. 9 sec. provoked by the events of the year before...
...current SEC chairman, Christopher Cox, has welcomed the report and has promised to follow up on implementing its key recommendations, including composing a comprehensive procedural investigative manual, similar to one used by U.S. Attorneys, to minimize discretionary abuse. Another recommendation: to keep reliable records of all external communication and to "generally discourage" communication with supervisors that excludes lead staff attorneys. Grassley praised Cox, a former Congressman, as a "model of transparency and accountability" and for "recognizing the value of Congressional oversight instead of resisting it like most other agencies do." As for the inspector general's office at the SEC...
...part, Aguirre has returned to San Diego, where he is still appealing his dismissal and suing the SEC for more documents. He also continues to call for heads to roll, but insists this is not about getting even but bucking up the agency he once revered, and still would like to rejoin...
...reporting the allegations of Gary Aguirre's superiors at the SEC, the original article should have made it clear that the accusations had been discredited by the two Senate committees that jointly issued their report after conducting an exhaustive, year long investigation, which included questioning of all his superiors. "When combined with the circumstances reviewed earlier, the termination appears to be merely the culmination of the process of reprisal that began with the August 1 re-evaluation," the report reads. "Thus, in its totality, the evidence we reviewed suggests a retaliatory motive for Aguirre's dismissal...