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...controlling the typing. Some of the news footage of Houben appears to show him and his therapist typing on his computer screen with his eyes closed. Earlier this week, Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, told The Associated Press that Houben's communication was "Ouija board stuff. It's been discredited time and time again...
...According to a 200-page CBI report, Satyam insiders forged board resolutions to secure $260 million in bank loans which were diverted for personal use, and over several years generated fake customer identities and account statements to inflate Satyam's revenues by millions of dollars, boosting the company's share price and making its books look far healthier than they were. Investigators following the paper trail have discovered that embezzled funds were channeled into 1,065 properties valued at $74 million, including some 6,000 acres of land, 40,000 sq. yd. of housing plots...
...concluded its investigation, but other federal agencies, including the Securities Exchange Board of India, are expected to step in and assist in identifying illicit assets acquired by Raju and his accomplices. In October, India's Enforcement Directorate attached about 280 properties owned by Raju and his extended family, which it said were obtained with embezzled funds. A senior government official says that more Satyam properties will be attached. More shoes will drop with a fraud of this magnitude, says Partha Iyengar, head of research at the India office of Gartner, the Connecticut-based I.T. research and advisory firm...
...Retailers across the board reported strong crowds early Friday, with high-definition televisions, laptops, winter coats and the popular toy Zhu-Zhu pets among the hottest items. "There were bargain-hungry shoppers out there, and retailers really did pull out all the stops for people," says Kathy Grannis, a spokesperson for the National Retail Federation, noting that many of the day's hot item carried the steepest discounts. (See TIME's 2009 holiday gift guide...
...game was never in doubt. Using its size advantage early, the Crimson got on the board with three straight post-ups from sophomore forward Keith Wright and senior co-captain Doug Miller...