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...status outside the law, even though their style and motives were not so very different from the robber barons who found their riches in more respectable industries. The difference between the gangsters and, say, John D. Rockefeller, was that their methods of eliminating the competition was, shall we say, somewhat more strenuous, and that ultimately they paid a deadly price for their depredations...
...somewhat amazing that Marbury has any endorsements given his brutal off-season in which he 1) defended Michael Vick's dog-fighting (later recanted), 2) told an interviewer he wanted to "see the spit on your mouth" during a bizarre TV appearance and 3) admitted in a sexual-harassment trial against his coach, Isiah Thomas, that he called a New York Knicks executive a "bitch" and had an extramarital tryst with a Knicks intern. What's the problem? says Marbury. "My sneakers aren't going anywhere, and they're still affordable," he says. "People aren't going to stop living...
...code also calls on hedge funds to voluntarily disclose interests in companies held through indirect investments, to bolster strategies to weather big market swings, and to detail procedures followed in putting valuations on illiquid assets such as subprime debt, among other provisions. "We certainly hope that this might reduce somewhat the appetite of governments to regulate," says Large. Meanwhile in the U.S., a government-sponsored industry group, the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, is also preparing a set of voluntary hedge-fund guidelines. "Regulation can be a blunt instrument," says Russell Read, chief investment officer for the California...
...program that we see is the Times’ recent decision to make almost all of its content free online. But newspapers in dining halls offer students something that an online newspaper cannot—a physical presence that can promote debate and discussion far more effectively than the somewhat isolating experience of reading the paper on a screen. It also allows students to browse and chance on stories they may have not seen otherwise in a way that the Web precludes. Students already read campus news on a regular basis in the dining hall; they should have similar access...
...SOMEWHAT LIBERTARIAN...