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...while there was the black comedy of corporate fraud. Who knew that the swashbuckling economy of the '90s had produced so many buccaneers? You could laugh about the CEOs in handcuffs and the stock analysts who turned out to be fishier than storefront palm readers, but after a while the laughs came hard. Martha Stewart was dented and scuffed. Tyco was looted by its own executives. Enron and WorldCom turned out to be Twin Towers of false promises. They fell. Their stockholders and employees went down with them. So did a large measure of public faith in big corporations. Each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persons of The Year 2002: The Whistleblowers | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...usual, with tall stories of the sublime and the ridiculous. The buttoned-up Independent carried an "exclusive" leak on plans for Tony Blair's modernized House of Lords, in which their lordships will be chosen from the public by lottery. The tabloid Daily Mail went for something a bit fishier: "Red Herring Returns After 500 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: April Is the Foolest Month | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...fishier one wondered how angry Connors was after losing to Minneapolis Doubles Specialist Robert Seguso in the first round. "You don't need to know everything," replied the third seed, still able enough for that perch but old ; enough (33) to have to defend his continuing presence. "What's your problem?" he bristled. "Why do you want me to get out of tennis? You don't know what you have until you lose it." Connors referred, of course, to McEnroe, the tabloids' favorite foil, away on a paternity leave. "He's not here and you miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Going, Going, Gone At Wimbledon | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

Virginia Wade, "Our Ginny" everywhere from the London Times to the fishier fish wrappers, and a quarter-finalist this year at nearly 38, ticks off Navratilova's list of parts: "So fit, so fast, so quick off the mark, so athletic, so confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Martina's Turn at the Top | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

Rinehart depth will try to counter a fishier Wintergreen when the intramural rivals meet for their annual hockey game on the Watson Rink at 4:30 p.m. today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wintergreens Favorites in Annual Clash With Rineharts Sextet Today | 3/30/1955 | See Source »

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