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...Martha Stewart faced fresh doubts about her explanation of why, after buying stock in a drug company run by a close friend, she sold her shares just ahead of bad news about the company's cancer drug. Stewart, recently appointed a director of the New York Stock Exchange, denies wrongdoing, but shares in her Martha Stewart Omnimedia have declined 40% in the past month over fears of damage to her image...
When the WorldCom scandal broke, Martha Stewart must have smiled. Here, surely, was deliverance--a fresh spectacle that would shift the fickle spotlight of the tabloids and TV shows away from insider-trading allegations against the Diva of Domesticity and onto some other supposed villain...
...such luck. If anything, the heat in Stewart's kitchen is rising. Investigators say they are looking into possible obstruction of justice by Stewart, stemming from what they suspect are false statements about her sale of 3,928 shares of stock in drug company ImClone a day before it announced bad news that drove the stock price down...
...heart it's an ordinary music contest: hopeful talent, shattered dreams, hard-luck stories and more renditions of I Will Always Love You than you can shake Whitney Houston at. But what has instantly made it America's new favorite source of schadenfreude--or maybe second favorite after Martha Stewart--is the full-contact judging of Cowell, along with his kindlier partners, veteran music exec Randy Jackson and Laker Girl turned pop star Paula Abdul...
...dressing down for outfits that weren't up to code: hats for women, top hats and morning coats for men. The tradition-bound Queen instructed officials to bounce a BBC camera team from her official paddock because the men sported open collars. Also turned away were Rod Stewart, in a blue-striped coat, and his girlfriend, hatless photographer Penny Lancaster, left. The couple didn't intend to enter the paddock, Lancaster said, but "just got a bit lost." Of no concern to anyone, apparently, was the guest with an enormous strawberry on her head...