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Phone taps, FBI surveillance, confidential informants - it's the stuff of major mafia investigations and Law & Order reruns. But they're also the tactics used by federal authorities against a slew of dark-suited desk jockeys accused in Wall Street's largest insider-trading scandal in decades. Authorities say billionaire hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and 19 others illegally used secret information about public companies to inform investments that yielded some $60 million in profits over the past several years. The defendants, who also include traders, lawyers and executives at firms such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insider Trading | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

...With Gorbachev's arrival in 1985, Reagan found a partner who could help in his quest to end the arms race--and ultimately abolish nuclear weapons. "There was something likable about Gorbachev," Reagan said after their first meeting in Geneva. (See pictures of East Germany making light of its dark past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reagan's Speech That Ended the Cold War | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

Speaking with Mental Health Services proved fascinating. One doctor with whom I spoke said there was some unease in the department about how healthy it was to hermetically seal students into dark, barren rooms and refuse them access to friends, possessions, or other small human dignities. Apparently MHS had to fight to keep UHS from stitching red patches bearing the word “SWINE” onto the clothes of the infirmed. “We’re hoping next year the university will let us provide assistance to the sick in the form of sun-lamps. We?...

Author: By Zachariah P. Hughes | Title: A Quarantine Story | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...into Boston and Cambridge. Ben Affleck has graced the grimy pit of the Harvard T station, John Hamm has been spotted outside burrito joints, and Katie Holmes has been mobbed while eating cupcakes with her daughter Suri. Perhaps it’s just my Boston-is-always-cold-and-dark pre-winter bias kicking in, but I find myself slightly skeptical about Boston’s increased exposure...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly | Title: It Ain’t Always Sunny in Boston: Films Lie About City | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

...team came into the season with a veteran offense and the make-up of a dark horse Ivy League contender. The other came in with a title to defend and an untested quarterback. It was anyone’s guess who would still be undefeated at this point...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Slumping Lions Not To Be Underestimated | 11/6/2009 | See Source »

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