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...Blockbuster for an idea of how nasty it could get. Icahn bought a stake in the company last year, and after management resisted his calls for change, Icahn publicly derided the CEO for taking an excessive pay package with the company losing money and called his budget "a spending spree." The stock has continued to slide...
...sympathetic figures. They were found guilty of looting their company of hundreds of millions of dollars. Before Monday's sentencing, Assistant District Attorney Owen Heimer told the court that Kozlowski "should not be shown any leniency. He stole. He committed fraud. He committed perjury. He engaged in a shocking spree of self-indulgence...
...celebrities. Points are awarded for every appearance in such magazines as IN STYLE and Vanity Fair and on the red carpet for such events as the Emmys and the Academy Awards (the climax of the league?s 24-week season). The winner gets a $1,000 shoe-shopping spree. Tailgate party optional...
...murder spree has erupted in Washash, as in countless neighborhoods across Baghdad. Death squads, which tend to move in Opel sedans, are entering what once were tight-knit communities and killing ordinary citizens, apparently to stir up sectarian hatred. The goal: to incite a civil war that each side hopes will give its sect dominance over the other. In Baghdad, a city of more than 5 million, there were at least 880 violent deaths last month, according to Faiq Amin Bakr, director of the Baghdad central morgue. (In New York City, with a population of more than 8 million...
Corriero admits she went on a mass-emailing spree of her own to procure votes, which may be made on the ESPY Award’s website, but credits her roommates and family with spreading the news far and wide. She is especially proud of Kelly Noon—a friend and former women’s lacrosse player—and Banfield for allegedly bombarding the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with flyers about the ESPYs...