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...Cuban co-founded HDNet, a high-definition television network. The current programming line-up includes Dan Rather Reports. Cuban also owns or co-owns a film production company, chain of movie theaters and the web site sharesleuth.com, which is devoted, in part, to investigating securities fraud. His film production company, HDNet Movies, came under heavy fire in 2007 for financing the movie Redacted about an incident in which U.S. soldiers raped and killed a 14-year-old Iraqi girl...
...they had purchased, they scrambled to cover losses. Not only did oil prices go down, but other assets also declined significantly. The further oil prices went down, the more deleveraging and liquidation had to occur to cover these losses. The financial crisis was the spark; deleveraging, the fuel. A chain reaction occurred as traders who had bought oil saw their money disappear in oil and other losing investments. And with a credit crisis looming, major players interested in maintaining a long position could not raise capital to cover margin requirements...
That judgment gains credence from a simple fact: the heparin disaster goes beyond Baxter, SPL and their suppliers--none of whom have been charged with wrongdoing and all of whom say they are cooperating with regulators to find out where problems arose in the supply chain and why. French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Aventis told French regulators and the FDA that it too had found and recalled tainted heparin last spring. (Baxter pulled all its heparin from the market last January.) In April, deputy FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock said the agency had traced the contaminated heparin api, which ultimately found...
CforC's team-based leadership structure draws on the operations and planning skills of a military commander (Butler), the business acumen of an entrepreneur (Hashemi, who co-founded a successful espresso-bar chain called Coffee Republic) and the humanitarian know-how of someone involved in nongovernmental organizations (NGOS)--that's Slim, an academic who worked for a number of agencies, including the U.N. and Save the Children...
...badge as the series began its endgame.) That would not be interesting for long if it weren't for the fact that Mackey was also a very good cop. He nails criminals other police couldn't get--albeit using shady deals and the occasional beatdown with a steel chain. He's a shameless racist, yet he lives to take down crooks who prey on one of L.A.'s poorest and brownest neighborhoods. He's a brutal thug and a loving...