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...outcome, it turned out, was record-breaking: Today, Phelps made Olympic history by winning his eighth gold medal at these Games and becoming the greatest Olympic athlete ever. With a 50.15-sec. butterfly leg in the 4 x 100-m medley relay, Phelps, along with the U.S. team, set a new world record - and Phelps set a new bar for Olympic athletes to clear...
Just minutes earlier, 41-year-old Dara Torres, the oldest swimmer ever to compete in the Olympics, lapped the second-fastest time of the year in the 50-m freestyle and earned a silver medal, 0.01 sec. behind the winner. Along with her two other silver medals in relay races, her total Olympic haul is an impressive 12, just four shy of Phelps...
...Shareholder advocates suggest that the Siemens board may have another motive, too: to build goodwill with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC is conducting its own investigation into the bribery affair and could slap hefty fines on the company unless Siemens demonstrates that it is taking convincing action to clean up the mess on its own. "The SEC plays a role in this decision in the sense that Siemens wants to show that it is pursuing everyone involved regardless of their past position or reputation," says Daniela Bergdolt of the German Association for the Protection of Securities Ownership...
...Before getting to that, however, Matt Norman wants us to know that his uncle was a fine sprinter: the 20.06 sec. he clocked in the final is still the fastest time in which any Australian has covered the distance. Norman had stunned almost everyone by separating Smith and Carlos, but his unforgettable October evening had just begun...
...settled a civil suit charging that he had made $12.6 million in illegal stock- market profits on corporate takeovers. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation was in full swing, along with criminal investigations by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. No official accusations were leveled, but Ira Lee Sorkin, the SEC's New York director, disclosed that his agency has 35 insider- trading cases under investigation. Wall Street, said a senior Manhattan investment banker, ''feels like Hollywood in the McCarthy era.'' Speculation that Levine was adding new names to the scandal has been growing exponentially since the former investment wunderkind began...