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Phone records are also helping investigators pin down just how Stewart may have been tipped off to FDA plans before selling her shares Dec. 27. Sources say her assistant has signed an affidavit revealing that Bacanovic, who was also Stewart's broker, called Stewart's office between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Dec. 27, shortly after Aliza's shares were dumped, and left a message that "ImClone is going to start trading downward." Stewart called Bacanovic's office at 1:30 p.m. Her stock was sold 10 minutes later, sources say. Stewart has denied that she engaged...
...victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore off her blue skirt and pink T shirt, shaved her, sprinkled her with holy water from the Ganges and rubbed her with cooking fat. Then chanting mantras to the "mother" goddess Kali...
...Phone records are also helping investigators pin down just how Stewart may have been tipped off to FDA plans before selling her shares Dec. 27. Sources say her assistant has signed an affidavit revealing that Bacanovic, who was also Stewart's broker, called Stewart's office between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Dec. 27, shortly after Aliza's shares were dumped, and left a message that "ImClone is going to start trading downward." Stewart called Bacanovic's office at 1:30 p.m. Her stock was sold 10 minutes later, sources say. Stewart has denied that she engaged...
...from France's older generation of clubby, secretive business chieftains. But Messier ignored the risk of over-exposure, and his hamming soon generated jealousy, resentment and disdain in France. His Americanophilia also rankled, especially after he moved to a $17.5 million Park Avenue apartment and poked a U.S. flag pin in his lapel. In December, when Messier announced yet another U.S. acquisition and pronounced "the French cultural exception" dead, his country's media and political establishment turned against him. Messier further alienated his countrymen by publicly firing Pierre Lescure, long-time president of subsidiary Canal Plus, just weeks after giving...
...whole book at corporate executives or board members. Vice President Dick Cheney and economic adviser Larry Lindsey have argued that regulatory over-reaction will put a chilling effect on entrepreneurial activity and keep good people from serving on corporate boards. "We've been dancing on the head of a pin here for two weeks trying to find balance because this is hard to do," says a top White House aide...