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These days, you don't have to work on Wall Street to get entangled in an insider-trading scandal - just ask Martha Stewart. The homemaking guru spent five months in prison in 2004 after a series of events triggered by her sale of $228,000 in shares of biomedical firm ImClone Systems, the day before its value plunged 15%. Thanks to a 1997 Supreme Court ruling, even those who lack a connection to a company cannot trade on inside information if they know it is meant to remain confidential. (ImClone was run by Stewart's friend, Sam Waksal.) Ultimately, Stewart...
...glean inside information, Pajcin and an accomplice, former Goldman colleague Eugene Plotkin, hired workers in the Wisconsin printing plant where BusinessWeek was published to filch copies of the magazine straight from the press to discover which companies would be mentioned. Plotkin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to nearly five years in prison. Pajcin served two years before being released, and promptly disappeared - possibly leaving the country. Once he's tracked down, he faces more jail time for violating his probation...
...Christmas Carol cost a bundle, $200 million, and no doubt Disney would have liked a bigger start for their way-before-Christmas movie. But it registered the best first weekend of any Jim Carrey movie of the past five years in which he has been seen. (In the CGI-cartoon version of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, Carrey provided the elephant's voice.) And Goats opened stronger than any Clooney movie of this decade that didn't costar Brad Pitt. The Box certainly didn't measure up to recent Diaz openings, even middling ones. But, like Goats, it cost...
...just text? The answer: just text. Surprised? Well, consider the man who was checking his e-mail when he came across a dating-service ad featuring a picture of a bikini-clad woman. He looked at the woman's face and chest once - and then at the surrounding text five times. (See pictures of expensive things that money...
Feeling lethargic in your too familiar dining house tonight? Have you figured out that the Bagel Bites meal plan (pizza in the morning, pizza in the evening, pizza at supper time) isn't for you. Looking for an adventurous meal for five bucks...