The gunman, Adam Lanza, 20, has been described as a loner who was intelligent and socially awkward. And while no official diagnosis has been made public, armchair diagnosticians have been quick to assert that keeping guns from getting into the hands of people with mental illness would help solve the problem of gun homicides. Arguing against stricter gun-control measures, Representative Mike...
Mind: A Misguided Focus on Mental Illness in Gun Control Debate
Label: Lifestyle The gunman, Adam Lanza, 20, has been described as a loner who was intelligent and socially awkward. And while no official diagnosis has been made public, armchair diagnosticians have been quick to assert that keeping guns from getting into the hands of people with mental illness would help solve the problem of gun homicides. Arguing against stricter gun-control measures, Representative Mike...
DealBook: Massachusetts Fines Morgan Stanley Over Facebook I.P.O.
Label: Technology10:48 a.m. | Updated Morgan Stanley is paying for its role in the troubled stock market debut of Facebook.On Monday, Massachusetts’s top financial authority fined the bank $5 million for violating securities laws, the first major regulatory action tied to Facebook’s initial public stock offering.William F. Galvin, the secretary of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, accused the bank of improperly influencing...
Richard Engel of NBC Is Freed in Syria
Label: WorldRichard Engel, the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, and three of his crew members were freed on Monday after five days in captivity in Syria, the news organization said on Tuesday. The journalists were unharmed. The news organization released a short statement that said, “We are pleased to report they are safely out of the country.” The identities of the kidnappers and their...
Dec
17
Bucks Blog: The Over-The-Wall Portfolio for Excess Cash
Label: BusinessCarl Richards is a financial planner in Park City, Utah, and is the director of investor education at the BAM Alliance. His book, “The Behavior Gap,” was published this year. His sketches are archived on the Bucks blog. If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ll spend years pouring everything — time, money, passion — into your businesses with the hope that someday it will pay off. If things go well, you’ll...
The New Old Age Blog: In the Middle: Why Elderly Couples Fight
Label: HealthGeorge and Gracie (let’s call them that because using their real names would make them even unhappier than they already appear to be) are in their 80s and have been married for more than 65 years. Until recently they seemed to ride the waves that are inevitable in any marriage that spans nearly seven decades; through good and bad, they were partners and best friends.But lately — ever since her hospitalization...
The New Old Age Blog: In the Middle: Why Elderly Couples Fight
Label: LifestyleGeorge and Gracie (let’s call them that because using their real names would make them even unhappier than they already appear to be) are in their 80s and have been married for more than 65 years. Until recently they seemed to ride the waves that are inevitable in any marriage that spans nearly seven decades; through good and bad, they were partners and best friends.But lately — ever since her hospitalization...
European Mobile Stocks Fall After Costly Spectrum Auction
Label: TechnologyBERLIN — Shares of four big European cellphone operators fell Monday after they paid more than twice what investors had been expecting in a spectrum auction in the Netherlands, raising concern that a damaging bidding war could sap the industry. The Dutch auction began Oct. 31 and ended Friday, raising €3.8 billion, or $4.9 billion, for spectrum that the companies plan to use for high-speed...
Gérard Depardieu Says He Is Giving Up French Citizenship
Label: WorldPARIS — Gérard Depardieu, the famous French actor, will be French no more, so exasperated is he with French taxes and the French government, he declared in an angry open letter to France’s prime minister on Sunday. Mr. Depardieu, who has been accused by France’s Socialist government of abandoning the country to avoid paying taxes, will be giving up his French citizenship and taking up residence...
Dec
16
As Gold Is Spirited Out of Afghanistan, Officials Wonder Why
Label: BusinessZalmai for The New York TimesA Kabul jewelry shop. Officials are concerned about gold being flown out of Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan — Packed into hand luggage and tucked into jacket pockets, roughly hewed bars of gold are being flown out of Kabul with increasing regularity, confounding Afghan and American officials who fear money launderers have found a new way to spirit funds from the country....
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