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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...
...street cred is definitely there, she being the first person to head both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), two large non-government industry regulatory bodies, and also a former SEC commissioner under Ronald Reagan. There are no disputes about her leadership qualities or her fine reputation as a consensus builder in the clubby world of financial agencydom. But even her strongest supporters, like Senate finance leader Sen. Charles Schumer of New York wonder aloud if she has what it will take, if she's "willing to take no prisoners...
...probably not known as a hard as nails enforcer, so what will be key is who she brings in to head enforcement," says Coffee, a specialist in corporate and securities law. "It has to be someone strong, this will send a signal, this will be a symbol of unequivocal enforcement. A tough prosecutor will be a big, big help to her, and the agency needs that...
...moments in history including the first ministerial meetings held between North and South Korea in 1989, the milestone sitdown between South African President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela in 1992 and the 1994 draft agreement on Gaza and Jericho reached by Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and PLO head Yasser Arafat...
This evening, three British broadcasters - ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 - will air the DEC appeal. The satellite broadcaster Sky News today confirmed that it will not do so. John Ryley, head of Sky News, said, "We have concluded that broadcasting an appeal for Gaza at this time is incompatible with our role in providing balanced and objective reporting of this continuing situation to our audiences in the U.K. and around the world...