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Despite persistent urban legends, Sales never did blue material for the kids - though his staff did play a prank in which a topless balloon artiste danced to "The Stripper" while the on-set monitor indicated that the career-ending nudity was live on the air. (It wasn't.) He did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to the Pieman: Soupy Sales, 1926-2009 | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

• "We all share an interest in seeing these companies return taxpayer dollars as soon as possible, and Ken today has helped bring that day a little bit closer." - Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in a statement about Feinberg's rulings on executive pay (Reuters, Oct. 22, 2009)

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Compensation Czar Kenneth Feinberg | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

Say a friend offers you a deal in which for every coin flip that ends in heads, he gives you $11, and for every tails, you give him $10 dollars. If you had $1,000 in your bankroll, you would be foolish not to take up the deal. The first...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

Hawrilenko—who used to work in finance but now makes his living playing online poker—says that after he had played a large number of hands, he ran different kinds of win-rate analyses and determined that his chance of going bust was ?...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

Case in point: In Hawrilenko’s worst month, he stepped up to a bigger play and lost about a million dollars. “That hurt,” he recalls. But the month before, he had won $700,000. And the month following also proved fruitful. Hawrilenko...

Author: By Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Playing for Keeps | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

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