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...shares) at the top of the market for nearly $850,000, which represented a 200% profit on his original stake. Yet he failed to report the transaction until last March, in apparent violation of Securities and Exchange Commission rules. Bush contended at the time that the SEC had misplaced the report. Responds SEC spokesman John Heine: "As far as I know, nobody ever found the 'lost' filing." Bush declined to comment on either the incident or his involvement with Harken...
...years later, U.S. District Judge John Pratt rejected the SEC's conclusion, saying the sexually "hostile work environment" harmed Broderick's emotional and professional well-being. She was awarded $128,000 in back pay and given a promotion, and she continues to work for the SEC. Although no disciplinary action was taken against her former bosses, the agency has since closed the Arlington office. The ordeal has given Catherine Broderick a special compassion for other victims of sexual harassment. "Everyone questions why Anita Hill didn't file suit," she says. "I didn't file suit until I was forced into...
...have tried out for the television show, and legions more are expected to compete for a slot in the live contests. Just as on the television show, competitors will try to win points by completing tasks such as scaling a 30-ft. wall in 60 sec., while the gladiators try to thwart their efforts...
Only the strongest survive. The very first round of the tryouts, in which men are required to do 25 pull-ups, and women eight, in 30 sec., eliminates up to 90% of all challengers. The field is further winnowed by subsequent requirements: running the 40-yd. dash in under 6 sec., winning a one-on-one game of tug-of-war, and playing a round of Powerball, a brutal version...
...Chappaquiddick, Palm Beach) Kennedy a case of alleged sexual harassment to review. I have the greatest respect for Kennedy's stalwart liberalism and even for a few of his fellows on the Senate Judiciary Committee, but isn't this a little like asking Michael Milken to monitor the SEC? The Senators, after all, occupy a world where women figure less as friends and colleagues than as dangerous, Donna & Rice-like characters, capable of decimating a man's career. In the locker rooms of the U.S. Senate, it's the male who is likely to be seen as a "victim...