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...WAKSAL, 54, Former chief executive of ImClone Systems, to insider-trading charges. Among them: telling his daughter to dump shares of his highflying biotech firm just before news broke that the FDA had rejected one of its cancer drugs. Waksal is trying to spare family members from prosecution. His plea might not help home diva Martha Stewart, also under investigation for improperly selling ImClone shares...
...here we get to the point. This isn’t a plea for folks who never watch SportsCenter to get out to the games and cheer for the football team, a refrain that has been repeated on these pages ad nauseum (this columnist is among the guilty). Instead, the question is posed to those people who ordinarily would be attracted to college sports, those who would go to games if they went to their state schools or Stanford or Duke: Do you know what you’re missing...
...wrapping themselves in the flag and crying for increased security, the government exploits the current climate of fear. By accusing its critics of being unconcerned with national security, the government deflects substantive evaluation of its policies. The plea for increased security at any cost is a dangerous one, raising the specter of a constitutional dictatorship. Open debate must be promoted, for in times of supreme emergency, if and when they arise, the mechanisms of deliberative democracy should not be discarded in favor of the unchecked consolidation of executive power. The only way to insure this is to provide an atmosphere...
Saying he agreed with Kristol that Hussein should be removed from power, Deutch answered the calls for war with a plea for discretion. He insisted the U.S. needs to understand the government that will succeed Saddam and enlist the support of other states before the it invades...
...participated in insider trading. Stewart sold all her shares of ImClone one day before the biotech company disclosed that its new cancer drug would not be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Stewart has denied doing anything improper. But adding to her woes last week was the guilty plea entered by Douglas Faneuil, who was an assistant to Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch. Faneuil admitted that he had accepted gifts from the broker in exchange for withholding information from prosecutors investigating the case...