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...Friday, Brown's legal brief ignited a statewide debate among legal scholars, with discussion of the argument dominating law professor list-servs and e-mail lists. "It's creative and contains thoughtful insights," says Vikram Amar, a constitutional law professor and dean of academics at the University of California-Davis. "It profoundly highlights the almost paradoxical character of American constitutionalism: That minority rights exists only to the extent that the majority stands behind them...
...Vikram Sood, former head of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), is even more skeptical and thinks the raid may only be a means to buy time. "It would be quite surprising for the Pakistani army to do this," he says. "The LeT has been their favorite." He points out that no raid has taken place at the JuD headquarters in the city of Muridke near Lahore. The LeT allegedly morphed into the JuD after 2001, when the LeT was banned by Pakistan after it was accused of masterminding a botched yet deadly attack...
...been your most difficult subject? Vikram Chandran SUNNYVALE, CALIF...
...avoid the fate of Lehman or Bear, the firm's board may feel like it needs to do something to boost it's stock price. One option would be to boot chief executive Vikram Pandit. Some on Wall Street believe Pandit has not been quick enough to react to the problems of the firm and could still be in denial. On Friday, Pandit told top executives that he doesn't believe Citi needs to sell off parts of its business to raise capital. Investors don't seem to agree. The stock fell on the news...
That is exactly the sort of top-down control financial firms now say they want. Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit vows to be a "hands-on participant" in risk management. In August, UBS chairman Peter Kurer broke the firm into three separate units partly because the old structure, he said, encouraged "the blurring of the true risk-reward profile of individual businesses." In July, the Institute of International Finance, which counts large banks and insurance companies among its members, put out a 174-page report detailing best practices in the wake of the financial crisis. Among them: developing a corporate culture...