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...crown of "greatness" never sat easily on the snowcapped head of John Updike, one of the great writers of the 20th century, who died from lung cancer on Tuesday at the age of 76. He grew up a clever, stuttering child in small-town Pennsylvania and went to college at Harvard, where he served as head of the Lampoon, the campus humor magazine, rather than its storied literary magazine, the Advocate. He dabbled in cartooning, and his first published work in the New Yorker consisted of light verse. (See pictures of John Updike...
...wasn't so successful, you could almost feel sorry for Mary Schapiro, the new chief of The Securities and Exchange Commission. As soon as she settles in at Washington's most beleaguered agency - she was sworn at the SEC's offices Tuesday morning - Schapiro will have two makeovers to handle: the first, the demoralized and embarrassed agency, and the second, herself...
Federal agents executed search warrants at three Agape offices and froze both company and personal bank accounts, seizing $1.5 million. Cosmo's initial appearance in court is scheduled for late Tuesday in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Thomas Boyle at the U.S. courthouse in Central Islip...
...Obama doesn't buy that logic. Shortly after taking the oath of office on Tuesday, he turned what had been a campaign promise into an official presidential commitment: the new Administration "will stop the development of new nuclear weapons," the White House declared flatly on its website, with no equivocation, asterisks or caveats...
...government is trying to protect its citizens from war crimes charges that could be filed in foreign courts over the conduct of hostilities in Gaza. Fearful that Israeli commanders could be targeted for arrest while traveling abroad as private citizens on business or vacation, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Tuesday ordered the Israeli media to refrain from revealing the names of any military personnel who took part in the 22-day offensive. Officers involved in the operation who want to travel abroad are now required to first check in with the office of the Judge Advocate, which will determine...