Jerusalem — Attempting to deny Hezbollah any information useful for better aiming at targets, Israeli authorities have instructed the media not to identify the exact locations where the Katyusha rockets fall.
Joseph Grundfest made himself known to investors when he took a strong laissez-faire stance as one of the five Securities and Exchange commissioners trying to pick up the pieces after the 1987 stock crash. Arguing that well-informed investors regulate markets best, he opposed attempts to rein in program trading, raise the amount investors had to put up to buy stock on margin, and put limits on how much a stock price could change each day. He supported efforts to make hostile takeovers easier.
Why pay tax today when you can do it tomorrow? That was the mantra of financial advisers for many years as they promoted tax-deductible individual retirement accounts and 401(k)'s as a way to get big tax deductions in the here and now and defer tax on the accumulating balance to the future.
AP - More than 100 people are dead or missing in North Korea due to floods and landslides, an aid group operating in the communist nation said Wednesday.
The Esseily family was winding up a vacation in Lebanon when the airstrikes began. Nearly a week later, they're still looking for a way to get back to California. "I have two kids [and] a baby, and they're scared. I'm scared," Monika Esseily said. The family also says that despite daily bombings, the U.S. Embassy's only response is "We will call you."
Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital near the airport early Wednesday, lighting up the night with explosions. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the latest airstrikes, but at least 12 people died in Israel and Lebanon on Tuesday.
A cruise ship listed sharply off Port Canaveral, Florida, injuring at least 37 passengers, one critically, according to the Cape Canaveral Fire Department.