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...team made their ground-breaking discovery with a little luck and a giant telescope. Starting with a theory first postulated by Albert Einstein and then ignored for the last hundred years, they eventually concluded that a mere five percent of the universe’s matter is composed of the kind of atoms we know and love. The rest, they found, is an amorphous unknown they termed “dark energy.” This was the kind of discovery that raised questions rather than answering them...
...either an idiot or a megalomaniac, but I believe this company still has value." CALISTO TANZI, deposed founder and former executive of Italian dairy giant Parmalat, during a police interrogation into the alleged fraud that left the company with debts of nearly $17 billion...
...Management Shell Game What if they gave a business scandal and no one came? Royal Dutch/Shell plunged deeper into crisis last week as new details emerged about how the Anglo-Dutch oil giant overstated its reserves. But for the moment investors don't seem to care. Shell's stock barely budged after a report in the New York Times alleged that the newly appointed chairman, Jeroen van der Veer, was one of several executives who may have known about the reserves shortage two years before the company cut its official estimate by 20% in January. Even a deepening investigation...
...Want My MTV! U.S. media giant Viacom ended a dispute with EchoStar that left 9 million of the satellite TV provider's customers without access to Viacom channels, including MTV and Nickelodeon, for two days...
...one’s pants after stumbling down the stairs of your exclusive all male final’s club to discover that the oversized stuffed bear in the foyer is engulfed in flames. At a recent Spee event, decorative candles placed at the base of a giant and highly flammable stuffed bear were amazingly toyed with by drunken guests, giving Smokey something to really complain about. One of the many Spee’s to flee, Wes E. Stroberman ’04, claims to have been inspired to go outside and have a cigarette...