Word: martha
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CONVICTION UPHELD. Of MARTHA STEWART, 64, homemaking CEO who had pursued the appeal of her 2004 conviction for lying about why she sold ImClone stock that fell in price soon after her trade; despite having completed her jail sentence for the crime; by a federal judge; in New York City...
...Martha Makes Nice. Loosed from jail and installed on two TV shows, Martha Stewart ditched her old, competent ice-queen persona and tried to show a softer side that came across as phony as a plastic Christmas tree. Her version of The Apprentice fizzled; while on her daytime show, her frosty dominatrix side seems to be coming back, none too soon...
...comeback queen of 2005? Definitely Martha Stewart, who not only parlayed her sojourn in prison into two TV shows but also on her first day of house arrest grabbed some lemons from her greenhouse and told reporters she was looking forward to making hot lemonade. Here's how a few other big names this year made the best of a bad situation...
...dozens of channels of commercial-free music, talk, sports and a variety of other content. Sirius has about 2.2 million subscribers, XM boasts 5 million (as of the end of September) and both are elbowing each other to sign high-profile talent. Besides Stern, Sirius is trumpeting a Martha Stewart channel while XM recently landed Bob Dylan for a weekly show and owns satellite radio rights to Major League Baseball. Neither company has earned a dime in profits- both forecast that they?ll break even within a year or two. In fact, what really separates them is Stern, whose...
...only Justice Souter, but also, possibly, Justice Breyer—and maybe even Justice [Sandra Day] O’Connor—could be attracted to the statutory argument,” Martha L. Minow, the Smith professor of law at Harvard who helped to organize the faculty brief, wrote in an e-mail. Minow was one of a team of Harvard Law professors who organized the filing of the brief among the faculty—along with Frank I. Michelman, who is the Walmsley University professor at Harvard, and David J. Barron...