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...replacement for Thomsen was named, but experts agree that Schapiro needs a tough-as-nails enforcer to help remake the agency's image. The top mention to fill the spot is Robert Khuzami, a former federal prosecutor. He is currently a managing director and general counsel at Deutsche Bank. Khuzami spent 11 years at the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, where he headed the white-collar crime unit, before taking a job at Deutsche Bank in 2002. The SEC declined to comment on a possible replacement for Thomsen; Khuzami's office did not comment either...
...problem that our regulatory agencies can't find tough prosecutors without ties to the banking industry," said John Coffee, an SEC watcher and a securities-industry law professor at Columbia University. "It's unsettling that the government's revolving door always leads back to banks." In any case, Coffee believes, Schapiro will "need more than one person to change things...
Bosses may be an overbearing breed, but more often than not, you've got to admire their business chops. Wouldn't you love to have that same sense of competence and confidence, that ability to assess tough problems and reach smart solutions on the fly? Guess what? So would they. If you have ever suspected that your boss isn't actually good enough at what he or she does to deserve the job in the first place, a new study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology suggests that you might be right...
...definitely a tough loss to NYU,” Jones said. “It was a league game that we really felt that we definitely needed...
...recent warnings by several prominent rabbis that casting a vote for Lieberman would be "strengthening Satan." A burly Soviet immigrant to Israel in the 1970s - his Hebrew still retains a Russian inflection - Lieberman provoked the rabbis' ire not only because he is a secular Jew, but also because his tough, anti-Arab slogans are luring many hawkish Israelis away from religious parties. A trip to the Western Wall was a way for Lieberman to underline his kosher credentials. (See pictures of Israel's war in Gaza...