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...Martha Stewart faced fresh doubts about her explanation of why, after buying stock in a drug company run by a close friend, she sold her shares just ahead of bad news about the company's cancer drug. Stewart, recently appointed a director of the New York Stock Exchange, denies wrongdoing, but shares in her Martha Stewart Omnimedia have declined 40% in the past month over fears of damage to her image...
When the WorldCom scandal broke, Martha Stewart must have smiled. Here, surely, was deliverance--a fresh spectacle that would shift the fickle spotlight of the tabloids and TV shows away from insider-trading allegations against the Diva of Domesticity and onto some other supposed villain...
Stewart had no public comment on Faneuil's allegations. But, alarmed by the precipitous decline in the stock of her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, she unexpectedly turned up at a conference for institutional investors at Chicago's Four Seasons Hotel and talked up the prospects for her magazine, which has been showing strong advertising growth. Many investors are staying on the sidelines until Stewart is clear of the ImClone case...
...writer. "I wanted Susie's story to be a novel." It is: The Lovely Bones is free of any veiled autobiographical traces, and that's both a personal and an artistic triumph. If Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenét Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells...
...Susie's breezy, wisecracking voice sounds eerily familiar, that's because it could belong to a Martha Moxley or a Chandra Levy or a JonBenet Ramsey or any of the other little girls lost whose faces haunt billboards and photocopied flyers and whose stories we play and replay obsessively on the 6 o'clock news. "Murder had a blood red door," Susie tells us, "on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone." In The Lovely Bones, Sebold takes us behind that red door; she imagines the unimaginable and in doing so reminds us that those missing girls...