Since taking charge of the Securities and Exchange Commission nearly two years ago, Chairman Christopher Cox has rung up a string of regulatory victories, confounding some critics who thought he'd go lax on corporate accountability. Senior Writer Kit R. Roane talked with Cox recently about his history, what he's learned, and what he wants to accomplish next. Excerpts follow.
Exuberant students donned T-shirts reading "Innocent", the three players whose charges were dismissed got a standing ovation at a nationally covered press conference, and the chair of Duke's board of trustees sent an E-mail to the entire campus, the Duke Chronicle reports. The last time he sent such an E-mail was in 2003, when he announced a new university president. "It is not common, but everything about this case was uncommon," a university administrator tells the Chronicle.
"In fact, Mr. Vogel is heterosexual, does not reside in New York City, and does not even know anyone by the name of Julian," a correction in the latest Yale Alumni Magazine reads. A friend of the 2002 Yale alumnus had submitted a prank item suggesting the opposite. After the magazine published it, the real Matt Vogel submitted an update. "Would that my life were as exciting as Jon made it out to be in last month's issue." Apparently, his life includes mundane things like continuing to be heterosexual and finishing law school.
AP - Few Iraqi lawmakers managed to attend a rare emergency legislative session Friday, a day after a suicide bomber ripped through their cafeteria in a brazen attack inside Baghdad's U.S.-guarded Green Zone.
AP - The chief of CBS Corp. said the furor over Don Imus' racist remarks had become about more than the talk show host. But it was Imus who ultimately paid the price.
AP - North Korea said Friday it was still confirming the release of frozen funds that had been its key condition for dismantling its nuclear programs, making it unlikely it would meet a weekend deadline for shutting down its bomb-making reactor.
Hours after he was fired by CBS, radio host Don Imus met Thursday night with the Rutgers women athletes whom he had ridiculed with racist and sexist comments. "We were able to really dialogue," said C. Vivian Stringer, coach of the Rutgers women's basketball team.
Free of sexual offense and kidnapping charges, three steely-eyed former lacrosse players at Duke University called Wednesday for reforms in the justice system and restraint in the media.