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...young to certifiable school-age dependent. Lebed lives at home. He watches World Wrestling Federation matches. He roots for the Mets. He doesn't drive, at least not a car. But he has been in the fast lane of Wall Street swindlers for the past year, driving stocks with bogus chat-room hype that enabled him to capture $272,826 in illegal profits. Lebed settled his case with regulators last Wednesday, agreeing to disgorge the profits, plus $12,174 in interest, without admitting to any wrongdoing...
Well, you have to expect a little melodrama--though Bull provides more than a little, saddling its well-heeled heroes mawkishly with personal burdens to up their sympathy quotient. More unsettling is the subtext of Ditto's crusade. Bull has internalized the trendy, bogus messages of Ameritrade ads, "new-economy" magazines like Fast Company and career gurus like Tom Peters: that entrepreneurship is heroism, that job insecurity is emancipation, that work is art and love and rock 'n' roll. Ditto mocks "the suits...who want to stay [at the firm] for the rest of their lives nice and safe...
...Everyday article 39. Notable caravel 41. Dissenting vote 42. Revival shout 44. Court here will decide Pinochet's immunity 46. Ali's daughter, with six straight boxing victories 49. New Deal power agcy. 50. LAX posting 51. Kenny Rogers' She Believes __ 54. They've sued Wal-Mart over bogus T shirts 58. Beatnik's interjection 59. Hands-up time 60. Sweet treat since 1912 61. Lawyers' org. 62. Vietnam-era Admiral Zumwalt 63. Country in which 12-Across is located...
That's not to say Norse artifacts haven't been discovered south of Newfoundland--but aside from a Norse penny, minted between 1065 and 1080 and found in 1957 at an Indian site near Brooklin, Maine, nearly all of them have turned out to be bogus. The Newport (R.I.) Tower, whose supposed Viking origin was central to Longfellow's epic poem The Skeleton in Armor, was built by an early Governor of Rhode Island. The Kensington Stone, a rune-covered slab unearthed on a Minnesota farm in 1898 that purportedly describes a voyage to Vinland in 1362, is today widely...
...clear that there was no real bargaining going on; three months later an e-mail arrived to confirm that another bogus KKB had been signed with no meaningful improvements...