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...predecessor, Zhou Xiaochuan, was a committed reformer who took over the CSRC in 2000 and tried to give it teeth. (Last week he was rewarded with a promotion to lead the central bank). Nonetheless, investors have been duped in the past couple of years by a string of spectacular stock-market scandals. Consider Lu Liang, for example, who took control of a listed chicken breeder in 1999 and renamed it China Venture Capital. After raising an astounding $650 million from investors, he used 125 brokerage offices to manipulate his firm's shares. Under a pseudonym, he even wrote newspaper articles...
With 1:30 left in regulation, Norman made a spectacular block and then turned on the rocket-boosters, tracking down a long lob pass from Prasse-Freeman and finishing with an authoritative dunk. The slam put Harvard...
...numbers are even more spectacular considering Merchant’s ho-hum Harvard history. Before the season began, Merchant had not started a game since his freshman season. In 2001-2002, the senior averaged 7.2 points and 2.7 rebounds in just over 18 minutes of court time per game...
...Tribal leaders don't have to disclose executives' pay or management arrangements, report their profits, issue audited financial statements or divulge self-dealing contracts to the public or their tribe's members. Not all these deals work out for the moneymen, but the ones that do yield spectacular returns. A few of the outside investors have distinctive--some would say controversial--pasts. Here are profiles of three...
Carey's fall from the charts was the more tragically spectacular. While promoting Glitter, her vanity movie and album, she did a woozy striptease on MTV, posted a series of bizarre ramblings on her website and even flirted with Eminem. After she was hospitalized for exhaustion and Glitter flopped in a Waterworld-meets--Chris Gaines kind of way, Carey's record label paid her $28 million not to record with it again. This is pretty humiliating stuff, and Charmbracelet is not above begging for sympathy. Carey opens with Through the Rain, a somber ballad that reduces her formidable voice...