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...brought charges against Cuban under a particular legal theory - but the legal theories around illegal insider trading have a long history of getting rewritten in the courts. "He's an interesting guy for them to have picked. He's not going to roll over and play dead," says Bainbridge. "If he wants to, he has the resources to take this case all the way up to the Supreme Court." If it comes to that, the case could take on real significance...
...fourth year, the American Cancer Society claims, as many as 16.5 million people participated in the Smokeout, with a million dropping the habit for good. The campaign was directed in particular at young people; antismoking activists said it was harder to keep teenagers from picking up the habit than to get older people to drop it. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, in 1980 21% of high school students were habitual puffers. Over the years, the Cancer Society has enlisted celebrities and health officials to promote the Smokeout campaign - everyone from Dallas star and ex-smoker Larry Hagman...
...that, one hopes, will soon inject a degree of realism into non-American hopes for an Obama presidency, and cause policymakers to concentrate on their many own tasks rather than imagining a dreamy world in which competing national interests have somehow disappeared. Europeans, in particular, need to get past the lovestruck phase of their Obamaphilia - typified by that still astonishing crowd of 200,000 that cheered him in Berlin last summer - and have a clear look at the world they inhabit, and how they might best...
Here's how worried consumers are this year: retailers have already started promoting what would have usually been their best holiday deals--and have been greeted with collective indifference. The response: Is that all you've got? "The deals aren't that amazing, and the Best Buy circular in particular was so disappointing," says Jon Vincent, founder of BlackFriday.info, an online deal site. "Shoppers expected a lot more with the economy hurting...
Then again, Congress can do things that a bankruptcy judge couldn't--such as revamp health care and retirement policy so the costs don't weigh so heavily on big old companies trying to reinvent themselves. That won't happen overnight. But this particular economic crisis is so wrapped up in past government decisions--about financial regulation, about budgets, about housing policy, about pensions and health care--that the private solution of Chapter 11 just may not be enough. Bankruptcy-by-another-name it is, then...