Federal regulators voted tentatively Wednesday to require chief executives to personally vouch for their companies’ financial reports, a Bush administration initiative inspired by the collapse of Enron Corp.
COMPANIES ALSO WOULD have to make public important changes in their operations much faster and report a wider group of changes under the new rules of by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The “8-K” form for reporting significant events or corporate changes important to investors would have to be filed with the SEC within two business days, rather than the current requirement of five days for some items and 15 days for others.
Among the new items that would have to be reported in the 8-K: the sort of off-balance-sheet transactions that helped topple Enron and unexpected departures of top executives, senior managers or directors.

SEC votes to require CEOs

"Anthony Clark Arend, professor of International Law at Georgetown University, was online Monday, June 10 at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss the arrest and what comes next from a legal standpoint."

More questions the answers here, but at least the questions are framed.

Legal discussion of Padilla arrest

"A former Boston cab driver once identified by authorities as a major terrorism suspect was kept in solitary confinement for more than eight months here without seeing a judge or being assigned a lawyer, according to court records, lawyers and advocates familiar with the case."

The government is falling under pressure for detaining suspects without trial.

Suspect Held 8 Months Without Seeing Judge (washingtonpost.com)

"British and European security officials are highly sceptical of American claims that the alleged "dirty bomb" plotter, Abdullah al-Muhajir, was preparing to unleash a radioactive attack."

EU security forces don't beleive 'dirty bomb' story

"Several Democratic lawmakers yesterday questioned whether the Bush administration was trying to deflect criticism of the FBI by revealing the capture of a "dirty bomb" suspect one month after his arrest."

Various lawmakers react to yesterday's announcement. Responses are highly varied. I did not realise until I read this article that they guy had been in custody for a MONTH.

Democrats suspicious of arrest announcement -- The Washington Times

"Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday overstated the potential threat posed by ''dirty bomb'' suspect Abdullah Al Muhajir, Bush administration and law enforcement officials said Tuesday."

Threat of 'dirty bomb' softened, Ashcroft's remarks annoy White House

"legal analysts said Walker's capture raises a number of complex legal issues and could lead to allegations of disparate treatment of citizens and noncitizens under President Bush's plan to try noncitizens accused of terrorism before military tribunals, without the protections of criminal proceedings in civilian courts."

Old news, but comments here put some perspective on the questions raised in the previous article.

U.S. Taliban Fighter to Have His Rights, Rumsfeld Says (washingtonpost.com)

" The American Civil Liberties Union today criticized the government's military detention of a U.S. citizen as an "enemy combatant," saying that the action belies President Bush's earlier assurance that U.S. citizens would not be subject to military jurisdiction. "

If the courts agree to allow the administration to hold Jose Padilla, they will set an extremely dangerous precident in which U.S. Citizens can be denied any constitutional rights simply by defining them as "forgien combatants" without having declared a war. If the courts release Jose Padilla, an extremely dangerous terrorist will be rereleased into the community. It just doesn't get any uglier then this.

U.S. Citizen denied right to trial

Abstract: The idea that people are connected through just "six degrees of separation," based on Stanley Milgram's "small world study," has become part of the intellectual furniture of educated people. New evidence discovered in the Milgram papers in the Yale archives, together with a review of the literature on the "small world problem," reveals that this widely-accepted idea rests on scanty evidence. Indeed, the empirical evidence suggests that we actually live in a world deeply divided by social barriers such as race and class. An explosion of interest is occurring in the small world problem because mathematicians have developed computer models of how the small world phenomenon could logically work. But mathematical modeling is not a substitute for empirical evidence. At the core of the small world problem are fascinating psychological mysteries.

Could It Be A Big World After All?

It would hardly be surprising if the pursuit of passion led ambitious young people to rethink the whole idea of success.

The comment about "a couple years in the early 90's" is a huge understatement which seriouly marrs the observation here. However, some of the conclusions are reasonable regardless.

Young at the Wrong Time