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...oversees financial institutions, Markey has put forward a bill that would increase federal supervision of the largely unregulated derivatives dealers. "This wasn't a Maalox moment," he says of the recent run of financial setbacks. "It was a heart attack -- a warning." James Midanek, a financial expert whose firm Solon Asset Management helps victims of derivatives to minimize their losses, also sees more trouble ahead. "It's going to hit home a little more," he says. "We are going to hear more from local municipalities and colleges, and other less sophisticated investors who remain unaware of their exposure...
...nation's oldest Senator at 91, was checked into a hospital last night and remained there today after complaining of lightheadedness Monday. But doctors at Walter Reed Army Hospital may release the South Carolina Republican tonight. No cause of the malaise was named, but the piss-and-vinegar solon had been traveling for several days, then skipped lunch...
Church leaders intended to keep the 68-page report under wraps until the bishops had voted on it Aug. 24 during the church's convention in Indianapolis. But last week a conservative caucus, Episcopalians United, of Solon, Ohio, defiantly published the secret document in an effort to rally opposition...
...bronze plaques in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. All the names can be found in Bill James' new book, The Politics of Glory: How Baseball's Hall of Fame Really Works (Macmillan; $25). For 452 sizzling pages, the game's premier stats solon and most passionate fan stir-fries the old debate about who does and doesn't deserve to be there. "The Hall of Fame," he writes, "has never really thought through the issue of how to identify the most worthy Hall of Famers." His evidence: comparison of players' records and eyewitness...
...there is any real problem with this production, it involves the issue of critical distance. In writing about an era that had passed, Eliot felt free to comment on it, as a humorist and stern solon. By contrast, the mini-series is more of a period piece. It replicates the story but reflects only in part the wisdom of Eliot's novel...