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...Mark Cuban have a duty to Mamma.com? That question will take center court as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sues Cuban, an Internet entrepreneur and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, for selling his stake in the Web company after the CEO slipped him nonpublic information about an additional stock offering. Cuban, known for his outsize personality, has come out swinging against the SEC and what he calls its "win at any cost ambitions," promising to keep the case - and the murkiness of insider trading law - in the public spotlight in a way not seen since Martha Stewart...
...other to talk to Obama's two emissaries (the President-elect was not there himself). Surfing an Australian news website, I noticed that its top story was a report of a speech that Obama had just given by video to U.S. state governors on the need for Washington to stake a leadership position on global warming. The subtext: See, he's not just not George Bush; he's almost...
...knows what's at stake and has seen firsthand the personal toll of the war. Odierno's son Tony lost his left arm when a rocket-propelled grenade blew up his humvee in Baghdad in 2004. The general says his son's injury has given him a bond with other parents who have had a child injured in combat. "I understand," he says, "what the costs of this fight...
...Baseball was the centerpiece of that relationship,” Silverman said. “Our first conversation was more about baseball than it was about business.” Sternberg had at the time expressed interest in buying a minority stake in a baseball franchise, but nothing came of it. Soon, both men left Goldman Sachs to pursue other projects...
...lead an effort amongst our members to learn from the results of these last two years, to understand more clearly why we don't do better in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic states, upper Midwest, the West Coast ... We have a lot of learning to do before we begin to stake out those new solutions...