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...light last June, Stewart made several public statements defending her ImClone trade. She denied that she had received any inside information and said she was simply following the $60 sell arrangement she and Bacanovic had discussed. Comey, the U.S. Attorney, said Stewart made these statements "to stop the slide of the stock price" of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and deceived shareholders who otherwise would be worried that insider-trading allegations would damage a company built entirely around the image of its namesake. (The stock indeed rose briefly after Stewart's early statements defending herself but last week was down...
...arrive just 20 minutes before your flight. Pull up to the "terminal" (a tidy, one-story brick building), pause for a beverage in the lounge with about a dozen other passengers, speed through security and stroll 25 feet across the tarmac to a luxuriously appointed Embraer business jet. Slide into one of the 16 spacious leather seats (there are no middle seats) and dig into a gourmet meal. Then land at another convenient, smaller airport: Chicago's Midway. The fare: $1,500 round trip, about the same last-minute fare you would pay the better-known outfits with hubs...
...casual student has a great deal of difficulty in a pool with a dozen or two dozen applicants gunning from the start,” Wright-Swadel says. “The job pathways that were well oiled are not so slippery. The people who wanted to slide along are not able to anymore...
Preceding this season-ending slide was the Crimson’s victory over the Bears on April 9, when Harvard won 12-6 at Jordan Field. The Crimson dominated the match, scoring five unanswered goals to open the game. Eight different players scored the 12 goals for Harvard and junior midfielder Alex Vap to pick up 15-of-21 face-offs...
...copy of The Ascent of Everest is autographed by George Band, who was the youngest member of the expedition - just 24 in 1953. His parents went to the same church as mine, and my father got his signature when Band gave the congregation a slide show on his exploits in the high mountains. (In 1954 Band and another legendary British climber, Joe Brown, were the first men to summit Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, and technically a much tougher climb than Everest.) Now retired, Band still leads treks in the Himalayas. When I spoke to him last week...