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Facing prison time when she is sentenced on Friday, Martha Stewart is running out of options for her defense. A last-ditch bid for a new trial failed late last week; now TIME has obtained a portion of the evidence contained in that effort...
Returning home from Vietnam with the rank of captain and five medals, including three purple hearts, John Kerry became a leading protester against the war. He used his newfound prominence to launch a bid for Congress, but failed. After a stint as a high-profile prosecutor in Massachusetts' Middlesex County and then a term as Lieutenant Governor, he finally gained national office when he was elected to the Senate in 1984. Yale, Vietnam and the Senate are the biographical highlights that the Kerry campaign is using to introduce the candidate to voters. But it was his earliest years that formed...
What's more, the market data revealed shades of opinion that never would have shown up if the traders were, say, responding to a poll. A willingness to pay $70 for a particular drug showed greater confidence than a bid at $60, a spread that wouldn't show if you simply asked, Will this drug succeed? "When we start trading stock, and I try buying your stock cheaper and cheaper, it forces us to a way of agreeing that never really occurs in any other kind of conversation," says Bingham. "That is the power of the market...
...with a recently-published memoir of his still-unfinished musical career getting raves in venues including The New York Times, the Washington Post and Playboy, Slichter is making one more bid for the public’s attention...
...Vulcans--a campaign 2000 nickname for George W. Bush's hawkish national security team--went Krakatoa last week. Dick Cheney erupted on the Senate floor, deploying the F word against Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, who had been belaboring the Vice President over the no-bid deals that Cheney's old company, Halliburton, had scored in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suffered a meltdown in a House Armed Services Committee hearing, blasting the press for "sitting in Baghdad" and "printing rumors." (He later apologized.) And the White House was forced to acknowledge that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved...