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Consider the plight of Devika, who gets no alimony because she is not legally divorced. Polygamy has been outlawed since 1963, but it is not unusual for men to dump their wives if they don't produce children. She has gone to court nonetheless, to see what the system can do for her. Once a week she travels to a women's center outside the capital where cases like hers are picked up and pursued through the courts. "I know that I'll get something out of this process," she tells a counselor at the center, wagging a finger...
They may have lost millions of dollars for investors and helped foment the market downturn, but dotcom dropouts are in demand on the speakers' circuit. The phones are ringing for executives from Internet losers such as Yahoo and Priceline.com--if they dump their success stories and share their woes. "In the past we didn't bring up failure. Now we make it a highlight of speeches," says Michelle Lemmons-Poscente, head of the International Speakers Bureau, based in Dallas. "The best way to learn is by someone else's failures, and if there's drama involved, all the better...
...loyal to the people who work for him, and I could see him standing by them," University of California at Berkeley Economics Professor Bradford De Long said recently. "Larry took the job at the World Bank because he wanted to find a way to help the Third World, not dump toxic waste...
JEFF BEZOS SEC probes Amazon stock dump. Should've just sold the whole company on eBay
...every Starbucks, there are numerous bagel chains and brew pubs that went public, expanded too fast and fizzled. And stockholders could get indigestion next month when company insiders become free to dump 7.4 million shares that they have held since last year's ipo into a market that currently trades just 5.75 million Krispy Kreme shares. When insiders announced a previous sale in January, the stock fell 11%. But unless Krispy Kreme announces a plan to sell e-doughnuts, it stands to humble the tech stocks for the rest of the year...