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Fink didn't have to wait long. On Sept. 3, the crusading A.G., fresh from lashing the brokerage industry into a $1.4 billion settlement over fraudulent stock research, revealed his latest target: the mutual fund business. This time Spitzer asserts that the industry we have trusted to put us on equal footing with the big hitters was favoring them at our expense--through short-term trading schemes that dilute the gains of long-term holders...
...developing world and a practicing physician with his feet in what seems like a thousand clinics at once. He splits his time between regular rounds at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the free medical complex he founded in Cange, a rural settlement in the most impoverished part of Haiti...
It’s the same way the Bush administration uses Friday afternoons to make public its most disgraceful policy decisions—such as the August 29th announcement that the Federal Energy Commission had reached a settlement of just over $1 million with California energy companies. This was a great deal for the corporations, which had ripped Californians off by $8.9 billion, according to the California Independent System Operator. But I digress...
...sympathizers. But to do that, Bush set out an even grander effort to pacify an arc of crisis running from Marrakesh to Bangladesh. Hence, two wars so far--in Afghanistan and Iraq--plus a concerted U.S. effort to set Israelis and Palestinians on a road map to a peaceful settlement. In the most hopeful version of the Administration's strategy, these objectives come together in a virtuous circle--and peace breaks out all over. Having seen that the U.S. was a "strong horse" in Afghanistan and Iraq, Palestinian radicals would realize--by some process never quite explained--that there...
...through the doors of the station. The sisters ultimately sued, prompting the police to retaliate by charging them for assault and drunkenness. A €udge denounced this as "disgraceful" and threw out the charges. The sisters went on to the high court, but eventually received an out-of-court settlement. The officers were never punished...