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...lend Arizona software developer Sedona much needed operating capital, then trigger the collapse of its stock and profit from the company's demise. This pattern is also alleged in the civil suit handed to Badian on Aug. 8 in his apartment in Austria--only this time the mark was pet-supplies company Pet Quarters, based in Lonoke...
Usually the victims of hedge-fund excesses are their rich customers, who lose when the hedge fund makes a bad bet. But through naked short selling, hedge funds can stir up trouble for any publicly traded firm. In the case of Pet Quarters, the suit alleges that Badian's hedge fund lent the firm sorely needed operating capital on terms that allowed the hedge fund to convert the debt to shares at any time. Through naked short selling, Badian then pushed Pet Quarters stock from $4 to just pennies. Badian balanced his massive short selling with cheap shares obtained after...
...touch tidiness'' might soon be ''remedied by time, wear and Socks'' ((THE WHITE HOUSE, Dec. 6)). This prompted Nancy J.D. Harding of McLean, Virginia, to write us about a truly malicious presidential feline: ''One cat before Socks has already distinguished himself in the wreckage department -- Calvin Coolidge's.'' The pet, appropriately named Tiger, wore out his welcome very quickly. ''Evidently Tiger was a real 'Conan the Destroyer' beastie,'' reports Harding. ''His destructive ways cost the Coolidges a valuable antique bedspread and Tiger his stately home. My grandmother took him in -- briefly.'' Although the White House has always been home...
Directed by Mark Dindal Buena Vista Pictures 2 1/2 STARS After children are exposed to Disney’s “Chicken Little” this weekend, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were sudden requests for fowl to replace Fido as holiday pet gift of choice—or at least shrieks against drum legs at family dinner. Part incredible animation, part Zach Braff’s success at channeling lovable neuroticism, the title star of the production is the cutest animated animal ever—besting out the numerous big-eyed elephants, dogs...
...Institute will house office space for a yearly-rotating group of 12 to 15 fellows in African and African-American research. It will also be home to a gallery space and play host to several long-term research initiatives, including Dalton’s own pet project, the Images of Black and Western Art Research Project and Photo Archive, as well as the African-American National Biography Project. The Institute will also serve as the hub of a new publication, the Du Bois Review: Social Science of Race, to be edited by Lawrence Bobo and Michael Dawson, who continue...