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...Leary and Perik the Learning Company used "accounting manipulations" to gain market share and drive up the company's stock price. According to the suit, a sales manager at the Learning Company at the time of the Mattel merger told employees that he "suspected the 'Learning Company is broke' and is 'cooking the books.' " Mattel paid shareholders $122 million to settle the suit. O'Leary and Perik settled as well. O'Leary did not return multiple calls for comment. In the past, O'Leary has blamed the problems at the Learning Company on the technology meltdown and a culture clash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Shark Tank Guru: In Real Life, No Business Whiz | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...Okay you’re probably not going to love this one, “Can you comment on the admissions preference given to legacy students, athletes, and minorities?”Flyby broke this question down a bit… (We were specifically interested in how Harvard has been nabbing so many all-star athletes lately?...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Ask the Gatekeeper! | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

Jackson built a broad program to push city contracts to black-owned businesses. But the current crop of candidates - black and white - put balancing the city's books and stemming rising crime at the top of their agenda. "Atlanta is broke and broken," says Borders spokeswoman Liz Flowers. "This is about fixing a broken city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Next Mayor of Atlanta: A Post-Racial Campaign? | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...Okay you’re probably not going to love this one, “Can you comment on the admissions preference given to legacy students, athletes, and minorities?”Flyby broke this question down a bit… (We were specifically interested in how Harvard has been nabbing so many all-star athletes lately?...

Author: By Jillian K. Kushner | Title: Ask the Gatekeeper! | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...teacher Alonso Guerrero, offended some of the old guard in Spain. And the hothouse world of the fashion and celebrity press has criticized her for changing her hairstyle too often, speculated on whether the pressures of the palace have driven her to anorexia, and weighed in cattily when news broke that the princess had submitted to rhinoplasty in order, in the palace's version, "to correct a breathing problem." (Thankfully, everyone seems to agree these days that the surgery has flatteringly softened her features...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letizia of Spain: How to Look Like a Princess | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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