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...When Virginia's Democratic Senator Mark Warner asked the SEC nominee if "we needed prohibition of some financial instruments?, she answered cautiously: "We will explore prohibiting some instruments." She added that one big problem was turf wars among regulatory agencies. "Regulators need to cooperate," she said. "We haven't shared in past, we need a maximum number of eyes" to stop fraud...
...California, Biggie restored some bicoastal equilibrium with his quadruple-platinum CD Ready to Die. After that, the headlines were mostly police-blotter stuff. In 1996 his ex-friend, then rival Tupac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas. The following year, when Biggie made an incursion onto L.A. turf to promote his new album, he was shot and killed. (Neither murder was officially solved.) In 2003 Shakur got a zazzy docutribute, Tupac: Resurrection. Now comes Biggie's biopic. It's like the Day the Music Died for rhyming street punks...
...more vulnerable to attack when forced out of their hiding places and fortifications. Israel not only has the advantage of air cover and the overview of the battlefield it affords but will also use its high-tech abilities to operate by night against Hamas forces on home turf...
...remember playing a World TeamTennis match in the 1980s near Mary's office. I wanted to hear about her life, her quest for equality; and I needed to do it on her turf, where I could see her signature socks and cap. We met at the newspaper, and it was an enlightening experience...
...narcotraffickers battle over turf and trade, the unpaid Red Cross volunteers who come to the aid of the wounded are under increasing pressure. Culiacán is home to some of Mexico's most notorious drug kingpins, and thugs fight daily with Kalashnikovs, rocket-propelled grenades and homemade bombs. About 3,000 soldiers and federal agents patrol the city in Hummers and helicopters, but the job of picking up the maimed is left entirely to the Red Cross--mostly medical students in their teens and 20s. The local government donates to the group but provides no emergency service...