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Lehman CEO Dick Fuld complained loudly to the SEC earlier this year that his company was the victim of shorts such as David Einhorn, of Greenlight Capital, for badmouthing the company's accounting. Einhorn was unapologetic. Fuld got some action after the SEC sought to stop naked shorting with a do-not-mess-with" list of 18 financial institutions such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and investment banks. On July 15, the SEC issued an emergency order temporarily mandating that anyone who wants to short a stock "must borrow or arrange to borrow the security or otherwise have the security...
...have to admire Palin's handlers, who have created an image of her as a victim of the media. It allows them to justify Palin's not having a single press conference: She is just protecting herself and her family. How convenient! Janan Weinstein, Crystal Lake, illinois...
...that scene is repeated around the world about once a minute. Death in childbirth is not just something you find in a Victorian novel. Every year, about 536,000 women die giving birth. In some poor nations, dying in childbirth is so common that almost everyone has known a victim. Take Sierra Leone, a West African nation with just 6.3 million people: women there have a 1 in 8 chance of dying in childbirth during their lifetime. The same miserable odds apply in Afghanistan. In the U.S., by contrast, the lifetime chance that a woman will die in childbirth...
...have to admire Palin's handlers, who have created an image of her as a victim of the media. It allows them to justify Palin's not having a single press conference: She is just protecting herself and her family. How convenient! Janan Weinstein, CRYSTAL LAKE...
...woman who is an undergraduate at Boston University said that she was the victim of an unarmed robbery while walking down Garden Street at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Sunday, according to a community advisory sent by Harvard University Police Department yesterday. The victim was traveling from the Radcliffe Quadrangle to Harvard Square when she was struck from behind by an assailant. The victim fell to the ground while the suspect fled the area after taking the woman’s iPod, digital camera, and wallet. The victim, who was not seriously injured, could not provide HUPD with a description...