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...rapid approval of formal investigation orders and commission permission slips, Schapiro is now allowing SEC enforcers to more easily move from informal investigations to securing subpoenas for witness testimony and documents by abolishing the agency's onerous "pre-approval" process. The process, which began at the beginning of all serious investigations, required all five SEC commissioners to be present and "pre-approve" any major investigation. The problem: it often took weeks before all the commissioners could come together in one room...
...drugs have not been without problems, however. Statins have been linked to a rare but serious muscle weakening, and no studies have fully explored the effects of statins in patients who take them long term, perhaps for decades - today, the first generation of American heart patients to be prescribed statins have been taking the drugs for some 15 years...
...men—one recently inaugurated as the first black president, the other the congressman of his state’s Seventh District—overlapped at Harvard Law School by one year. Obama graduated in 1991 and Davis in 1993. At Harvard, Davis was studious and serious, with an addiction to politics, according to freshman roommate Joshua M. Levisohn ’90. “He was a government geek of the highest order,” Levisohn said. “He loved everything about government and covered politics incessantly.” During the 1986 midterm...
...Just then, a serious-looking young boy passed by, dragging an effigy of George W. Bush covered with Stars of David. One of the hair-gelled boys teased the lad for wasting a perfectly good outfit on an effigy, telling him that he should have saved the clothes for himself...
...President Barack Obama and his counterparts in the western hemisphere are serious about improving the dysfunctional dance known as U.S.-Latin American relations, they need only look at what transpired in Ecuador this weekend. President Rafael Correa rather petulantly expelled a U.S. diplomat on Saturday. He did so because the diplomat rather high-handedly sent Correa's national police commander a letter saying the U.S. was pulling $340,000 in aid to Ecuador's anti-drug cops, because Correa decided last year not to let Washington have a veto over who runs that force and even who works...