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As chief investment strategist of Legg Mason Capital Management, Michael Mauboussin's job is to understand the world and then make money off of it. What he's found over the years is that investors, like any other group of people, are prone to make mistakes that stem from faulty...
"The French view Polanski as an artist and celebrity and feel he deserves a different kind of treatment than ordinary people, which just isn't an option in the U.S.," says Ted Stanger, an author and longtime resident of France who has written extensively on the differing public views and...
Indeed, police in other European countries have turned a blind eye to Polanski's travel across the continent for work and pleasure over the years. The director has even made frequent visits to Switzerland in the past without any problem. His supporters claim that Swiss authorities finally caved in to...
Fugitive filmmaker Roman Polanski's onscreen dramas are rivaled only by his private ones. The latest plot twist came Sept. 26, when the director of Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby and The Pianist touched down at Zurich airport to find police waiting to arrest him in connection with charges of a...
• In 2005, won a libel case against Vanity Fair over a 2002 article that claimed he had tried to seduce a woman on the way to Sharon Tate's funeral.