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...mail exchange between Stewart and her broker that occurred shortly before Stewart sold her Imclone shares to prove that they knew they were acting on insider information. Stewart was convicted in the case and served five months in jail. In the Tyco case, prosecutors used e-mails to show that chief executive Dennis Kozlowski and chief financial officer Mark Swartz pressured Wall Street firms to maintain positive ratings on their company...
...wake of the financial crisis, prosecutors again hoped e-mail would point to wrongdoers. In mid-2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission released e-mails that seemed to show that analysts at credit-rating agencies understood that the mortgage bonds they were rating AAA were actually much riskier than that. An analyst wrote to a colleague, "Let's hope we're all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters." However, no criminal charges have been brought against rating-agency officials. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...seeks crazy or eccentric ideas that have never been done before and that will catch the public eye and make an impact.“We aren’t going to give you a thousand bucks to build a sweet-ass thing in your living room and never show it to anyone,” says Blake.Josh Gordonson, a sophomore at MIT and the winner of October’s “Awesome Fellowship,” exemplifies the foundation’s desire to fund cool ideas—literally—with his cotton candy cannon...
...domestic abuse: "Studies from Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States show that between 40% and 70% of female murders were carried out by intimate partners ... In South-East Asia, burns are the third leading cause of death [for adolescent girls and women of reproductive age]. While many are the result of cooking accidents, some are homicides or suicides, often associated with violence by an intimate partner ... Despite the size of the problem, many women do not report their experiences of violence and do not seek help. As a result, violence against women remains a hidden problem with...
...honest," says designer Perwani. "The West can make a better black dress than anyone else. We also believe that if you are going to show something in the international market, it should be international with your own regional flavor. That's what the real buyer is looking for." At Milan, his busy and brightly patterned dresses - culled from the clothes of the Baluch tribes and vivid Pakistani truck art - he says evoked instant cries of "Bellissimo, bellissimo...