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WITH STOCKS SPUTTERING AGAIN, investors of all stripes are flocking to a familiar fad: hedge funds, which are supposed to deliver decent gains even in bad markets. Yet the "gold-rush mentality," warns William Donaldson, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), not only threatens our retirement savings but also could one day destabilize the world's money system...
...then both sides knew the case was running out like a 24-sec. shot clock. The prosecution had consulted forensic expert Dr. Michael Baden several months ago about the accuser's physical examination, which showed some vaginal bruising, a possible sign of rape. But Baden said the evidence was inconclusive. "You could have these injuries in consensual sex and not have any injuries in nonconsensual sex," he told TIME. When one of Bryant's attorneys, Pamela Mackey, discovered that the prosecution had removed Baden from its witness list, she phoned him. He told her what he had told prosecutors. Mackey...
...After 9/11, anytime Americans encountered a really hard problem, someone would nominate Rudy Giuliani to solve it. There were calls for him to take over WorldCom, the SEC, the state - even the country...
After 9/11, anytime Americans encountered a really hard problem, someone would nominate Rudy Giuliani to solve it. There were calls for him to take over WorldCom, the SEC, the state--even the country...
WEASEL WARS Boots set a course record at last week's Ferret Olympics in Springfield, Ore., by finishing the Tube Race in 6.15 sec. Sparky took home the gold in the paper-bag-escape event. Tank weighed in as heaviest ferret...