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Plotkin and Pajcin also masterminded another more extensive scheme in which the two recruited “an individual to apply for a job at Business Week Magazine” to obtain confidential information, Monaco said...
...Harvard College graduate, along with a colleague at Goldman Sachs, was arrested Tuesday for insider trading, a scheme that allegedly earned them around $6.7 million...
...cloud of corruption has hung over Lula's government for most of the past year. His administration has been accused of paying opposition deputies to support its bills in Congress, engineering an illegal campaign finance scheme worth hundreds of millions of dollars and even paying a small right-wing party to jump on the PT's bandwagon before the electoral campaign started. Before Palocci's sudden exit, the party's president, treasurer and secretary-general had all resigned under the same suspicions of graft...
...attitudes required-poses that must have been hard to sustain, and had to be recorded rapidly. The final designs, scaled up on large pieces of paper, were transferred onto the wet plaster by dusting charcoal through the pinpricked outlines, or by cutting along them. The ceiling's highly complex scheme includes the creation of the world, the fall of man, a parade of figures who foretold the coming of Christ, and many purely decorative nude men, known as ignudi. Michelangelo studied the anatomy of the male torso intensively. It's no secret that he was attracted...
...closing press conference about the softwood-lumber wrangle, he warned that Canada will use its "legal options" if it can't get the U.S. to release duties impounded from Canadian lumber exporters. And, he added darkly, Canada is "running out of time" in its efforts to forestall the U.S. scheme to require Canadians (and Americans) to show passports before crossing the border by land, starting...