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...case is being billed as the largest hedge fund insider-trading case in history - its importance underscored by the fact that the feds got a wiretap to collect evidence, a technique normally reserved for drug busts and organized crime. "This is a monumental step for the government," says Stetson University law professor Ellen Podgor. "This is not the typical way you do a white-collar case." (See the top 10 crooked CEOs...
...Sunday's melodrama followed a dangerous week of high-stakes poker between the Stetson-wearing leftist Zelaya and his silver-haired nemesis, Roberto Micheletti, Honduras' de facto President. Claiming that Zelaya had resigned, Micheletti was sworn into office hours after the elected President was flown to Costa Rica in his pajamas. Denying that he had stepped down, Zelaya said he would return to take power - to which Micheletti promised he would be arrested for treason. The ousted President said he would return home anyway, along with several other Latin American Presidents who have condemned the coup. Micheletti retorted that their...
...Yeah! Maybe I'm reinventing the holodeck genre. The trick is to make it seem more real than Patrick Stewart in a Stetson...
Packing for Thailand usually doesn't involve more than throwing sunblock, insect repellent and a T shirt or two into your bag. But if you're headed to Khao Yai National Park, the country's oldest nature reserve, there's one more advisable piece of gear: a Stetson hat. Three hours' drive northeast of Bangkok, this forest and grassland plateau counts as Thailand's cowboy country. Locals work the nearby ranches, occasionally dressed in Wild West outfits likely inspired by American soldiers who passed through during R&R from the Vietnam...
...Salazar is a hat guy, and he donned his trademark Stetson on Wednesday during his introduction as Secretary of the Interior-designate. It was a sartorial gesture that seemed both an expression of his down-home persona and a reminder that he hails from the wide-open spaces he's now charged with managing. At Interior, Salazar, a first-term Democratic Senator from Colorado, will be charged with the critical role of mapping out policies that strike a balance between preserving America's natural resources and tapping them for energy and recreational purposes...