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This line of reasoning is most closely identified with Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and the current chairwoman of the congressionally appointed committee overseeing the Treasury's bailout efforts. In a 2007 article in the journal Democracy, Warren argued for what she called a Financial Product Safety Commission. But the idea isn't exclusive to her. Canada, which did not suffer the subprime woes of its southern neighbor, created a consumer financial agency in 2001. Australia and the Netherlands have taken the more ambitious step of consolidating all consumer and market oversight under one financial regulator while leaving soundness...
...tell the whole story. On June 27, a 17-year-old boy was murdered on Martin Luther King Boulevard, near one of Newark's spanking-new affordable-housing communities. "Whenever there's a murder in Newark, the city almost defaults to the terrible memories," says Clement Price, a history professor at Rutgers University, Newark, who has lived in the city for 40 years. "The statistics become meaningless...
...trial of a Boston University graduate student accused of illegal music downloading is slated to begin today, as his legal team, headed by Harvard Law School cyberlaw professor Charles R. Nesson, seeks to set a legal precedent that would protect digital file sharers from prosecution and avoid as much as $4.5 million in damages...
...cyberlaw professors at Harvard agree with Nesson's unorthodox approach. In an emailed exchange, Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, who argued against copyright extensions before the Supreme Court, wrote that Nesson did "the law too much kindness by trying to pretend (or stretch) 'fair use' excuses what [Tenenbaum...
UPDATED 4:22 P.M. Police tapes from the July 16 arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shed little light on the dynamics of the now nationally publicized confrontation, but confirm that the caller did not cite the race of the two men she saw breaking into Gates' home when she called police...