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...judge must have been listening. Cedarbaum gave her the most lenient sentence possible under federal guidelines--five months in a minimum-security federal prison and five months of house arrest. Was Stewart surprised? "Not at all," she said defiantly as she left the courtroom. But Wall Street was impressed, sending the stock surging 37%, closing at $11.81, on news of the light sentence...
...courthouse last week, Martha Stewart put on a brave face, smiling for the cameras before ducking into her black SUV. But if her appeal process is exhausted, Stewart's new life will be no cakewalk. She will most probably spend her five-month sentence at a minimum-security "prison farm" in Danbury, Conn., just 20 miles from her home in Westport. Like other inmates at the facility, where hotel queen Leona Helmsley served time for tax evasion, Stewart will wear a khaki uniform and black, steel-toed shoes and work 7 1/2 hours a day for about 12¢ an hour...
This time of year, work is the last thing on the minds of most Europeans. The E.U. mandates a minimum of four weeks holiday, guaranteeing a traditional summer exodus to beaches and mountains. When France adopted the 35-hour workweek in 2000, many employers met the requirement by simply adding to their employees' annual holiday allowances. It's not uncommon to find French workers with enough time to take both July and August off from work - paid, of course. Yet just as summer holidays come into full swing, the 35-hour week itself looks like it might get a permanent...
...SUIT? Mark Chopko, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, calls the bankruptcy an "act of desperation," though one a "handful" of dioceses might consider. They might be wise to hang back awhile. True, Portland may rationalize its debt, keep discussion of its sins to a relative minimum and set a limit on future claims against old offenses--in other words, extract itself from the nightmare still facing other dioceses. But the hearings could also become high theater, the diocese's fiscal and administrative exposure could breed further investigation, and a loss on the parish-assets issue could...
...threat of Saddam Hussein's illegal weapons. Among its conclusions: in 2002, two months after Vice President Dick Cheney claimed Saddam was pursuing nuclear and smallpox weapons, the CIA pumped up its assessment of both threats based on unsupported or nonexistent intelligence and on analysis that was "at minimum, misleading." The report quotes the CIA's highest-ranking analyst as saying she instructed her underlings to write a "speculative piece" that would "lean far forward" and "stretch to the maximum the evidence" in response to senior policymakers' interest in links between al-Qaeda and Saddam...