Word: martha
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...Martha I. Casillas ’05, a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House, Edward L. Rocha ’06, a government concentrator in Adams House, and Maribel Hernandez ’04, a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House, are executive co-chairs of Concilio Latino...
...keeping score at home, that's about $10,999,955,000 more in financial skulduggery than was involved in Martha Stewart's trial. (Stewart saved $45,000 by selling her ImClone shares when she did.) No one embodies late 1990s speculation more than Ebbers, 62, who as CEO of a high-flying telecom operated at the epicenter of the tech bubble. Ebbers grew unimaginably rich on paper by securing millions of stock options. When WorldCom's growth machine began to sputter so did its stock price, denting Ebbers' net wealth. Yet he tapped WorldCom's cash reserves for hundreds...
...Guilty Martha Stewart may be headed to prison. How did it come to this...
...inconsistent theories to explain the obvious. Lawyers for the Rigas family, which performed the remarkable feat of bankrupting a cable company, say their clients can't be guilty of a conspiracy to loot the company because they are too dimwitted: one is "not the savviest guy," another is "clueless." Martha Stewart's defense, by contrast, was in part that she is too clever to have done anything as dumb as conspiring to break the securities laws...
Will no one step forward to say clearly that these seeming malefactors are actually heroes? That we need more of them, not fewer? True, Martha has been found guilty (though she is appealing), and others may lose in court as well. True, these people may have personally harmed the economy and ripped off many individual investors. Nevertheless, taken together, they are a sign of the economy's robust health. Far better that a few greedheads get carried away than that we be worried that we are not getting the benefit of all the good, healthy, productive sort of greed that...