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Registered Rep. March 23, 2006 Kevin Burke	Investment Fraud Suit Brought By Brokers Blocked By The Supremes It might just have gotten harder to sue your firm and win money for bad research. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that investors who believe they were duped into holding stocks by a brokerage firm are precluded from filing large class-action lawsuits in state courts.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko	Gentle Persuasion: The Upside Of CO 2 Cuts While a conservative presidential administration eschews mandatory CO 2 cuts, manufacturers move ahead with reductions in response to customer and shareholder relations and liability concerns.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jonathan Katz	Eyeing Energy Savings The U.S. Department of Energy hopes free audits will encourage manufacturers to implement energy savings measures.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2006 Jill Jusko	CO 2 Regulation On The Horizon? It's not a matter of if mandatory regulation of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions occur, it's a matter of when. At least that's what many companies believe, experts say.
ifeminists March 22, 2006 Carey Roberts	Black Men, Soul Brothers Some pessimists look at the pattern of intergenerational poverty, crime, and broken families. They wonder whether we will ever find the formula to lift American Black men from the bowels of hopelessness and despair. The simple answer is "yes."
ifeminists March 22, 2006 Eric D. Tarkington	Letter: Right Cause, Wrong Approach Equal protection of the law in America is not enough to get fathers all that we deserve. It only puts a limit on what can be taken away.
InternetNews March 22, 2006 Roy Mark	DRAM Slam: Prison Time For Samsung Execs Three more executives in the dynamic random access memory chip industry are heading to prison for their roles in a global price-fixing conspiracy.
Foundation News & Commentary Mar/Apr 2006 Jody Curtis	Trying to [Re]build a Better South Rebuilding after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is going to take a lot more than putting houses back up. Letting residents have a say in their own future, and supporting self-help efforts are top priorities, too. Grantmakers will have to get creative.
Reason April 2006 Michael Young	How Did Iraq Go Wrong? In The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, by George Packer, liberal hawks blame incompetence but sidestep American narcissism.
InternetNews March 21, 2006 Roy Mark	Verizon's Broadband Regulatory Relief Verizon Communications scored a major victory Monday when a sharply divided Federal Communications Commission approved the telecom giant's petition to deregulate its commercial broadband lines.
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