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...Should investigators be able to build a case to prosecute in the EADS scandal, lawyer Maréchal says they face the daunting task of proving executives had inside knowledge that motivated their stock deals at the time of transaction. Maréchal says that has often been difficult to do under French law, explaining why there have thus far only been two major insider trading convictions: cases involving canning group Pechiney, and bank Société Général in the late 1980s. Maréchal says sentencing in those cases suggests anyone eventually condemned...
...Spain have said they oppose self-declared independence, largely on the grounds that it would encourage separatism among ethnic minorities in their own countries. Differences within the E.U. not only undermine the unity the West has been keen to uphold, but also could complicate the E.U.'s appointed task of helping to administer an independent Kosovo. "It is Europe that would pay the price if the status process fails," the E.U.'s Enlargement Commissioner, Olli Rehn, has stated, adding that the issue should be settled "not by unilateral declarations or unilateral veto threats, but by effective and responsible multilateralism...
...fact, we can go so far as to endorse a politics premised on the equality of all intelligences; not in the crudely ‘postmodern’ sense, which holds that all arguments are equally “correct”, but in a deeply democratic sense: The task of understanding and resisting injustice can only be waged socially...
...task of selecting Harvard’s faculty is considered to be a paramount responsibility. So it follows that tenure, which entails a lifetime appointment, is a vote of confidence Harvard does not make lightly. Harvard’s highest official is alone endowed with the power to bestow a full professorship, the sole tenured position at Harvard. “The most important aspect of President Faust’s job,” says Casey, “Is that she chooses the future faculty of Harvard...
...following year, in the wake of an infamous suggestion that innate differences may hinder women in science and math careers, the beleaguered Summers launched the Task Forces on Women Faculty and on Women in Science and Engineering with current University President Drew G. Faust and Provost Steven E. Hymen...