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...part of his sentence, Plotkin was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and forfeit the $6.7 million made through the unlawful trades...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Plotkin To Serve Time for Fraud | 1/7/2008 | See Source »

...groups who feel duty bound to try every insane invention Burger King can think of. Everyone is way too into it, and someone in the room always argues that, if you really think about it, the Coq Au Vanwich is pretty good, or that Dennis Kucinich will make a fine president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy, Without Brownies | 1/4/2008 | See Source »

Then came the unholiest offense of all. During the first game of this season, against the hated Jets, the Pats were caught illegally videotaping New York's defensive signals. Spygate cost Belichick a $500,000 fine and the Pats a first-round draft pick this year. Belichick wasn't exactly contrite about it, issuing a statement of apology and then refusing to answer questions. "I've said everything I'm going to say," Belichick responded when TIME recently asked him about Spygate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parsing the Patriots Paradox | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...even as Season 5 damns the media, it finds some love for Gus Haynes (Clark Johnson), a sarcastic Sun city editor with an unkillable work ethic and a fine-tuned b.s. detector who, despite those qualities--or because of them--knows he's a dinosaur. Maybe the greatest hero on The Wire is Lester Freamon (Clarke Peters), an old-school detective who explains to a young colleague how tediously scouring documents to connect a politician to drug money is better than collaring gang members on the street: "A case like this, here, where you show who gets paid behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Connecting the Dots | 1/3/2008 | See Source »

...were asked to guess John Andreas' profession, the words "fine-art auctioneer" would probably not come to mind. There's no bespoke suit or Etonian comportment. Instead, the burly Andreas sports cheap slacks, an off-the-rack polyester shirt and the mercantile mannerisms of a hard-bitten trader. Yet the former Indonesian shipping agent happens to be the founder and CEO of Borobudur Auction; in October his four-year-old company fetched $6.89 million at a Singapore sale of contemporary and modern Southeast Asian art. The figure was just $200,000 less than the highest figure taken at similar sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hammering Away | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

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