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...stadium celebration. A pair of the elite tickets goes for $350 but $300 of that is tax-deductible. Glimp says that the special tickets were offered to those who did a lot of work for the Harvard Alumni Association and Admissions Office, and were not designed to butter up potential fat-cat donors...
Illegal insider trading can take many forms. Advance knowledge that a company is about to introduce a new product, issue a spectacular earnings report or even be the subject of a flattering story can enable investors to reap easy profits on timely stock trades. But the bread and butter of inside traders is tips about takeover bids...
...secretly affronted by their pride in him: "I had been waiting all my life for a moment I realized now would never come--the time it would be my turn to be seen as I truly was." He glances at the holiday turkey, "which was draped in a butter-soaked dish towel and sat on the oven rack like a Latin American dictator in a sauna...
...lobby of Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza Hotel featured a curious display last week: a large butter sculpture of a donkey. The perishable sculpture, as well as complimentary airline tickets and an elaborate reception at the Atlanta Historical Society, was intended to show the visiting Democratic National Policy Commission what an excellent host Atlanta could be for the Democratic National Convention in 1988. Although the Democratic and Republican political conventions are still more than two years away, selection committees are already touring the nation to check out arenas and exhibition halls at potential sites. Bidding is highly competitive: the Democrats have...
...soft drinks. As each one is purchased, it gets a lacing of a thick, viscous white icing, unless the customer protests. At Cinnamon Sam's in Kansas City and Cinnamon Kitchen in Tampa, the buns can be "personalized" with a choice of toppings, such as caramel nut, honey butter, rum raisin, apple and cinnamon...