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...entire suite was chewing on the darling little minnows--breakfast, lunch and dinner. I should have seen the cavity coming, as the enamel on my back molars had clearly worn thin: I could no longer deal with food at extreme temperatures and everything had to be served at room temp. I was bad to the bone...
...contemporary romance writers to subvert or extend their genre in the way that, say, John le Carre upended conventional spy fiction when he killed off the sympathetic hero of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold. Fiddle with the romance formula--make the heroine a passive office temp with an eating disorder and the man of her dreams a philandering salesman with a wife and three kids in Cleveland--and the story suddenly resembles ordinary life...
...term "insider trading" tends to conjure up images of Wall Street fat cats clad in Armani suits sewing up closed-door deals in the wee hours of the night. Well, consider the new face of insider trading: John Freeman, a 34-year-old temp who, with 18 partners, was allegedly able to leverage a bunch of discarded faxes and other office detritus into $8.4 million in ill-gotten gains - all through the Web. The federal Securities and Exchange Commission revealed Tuesday that they've charged Freeman and his cohorts with conspiracy and insider trading in the pan-national ring formed...
...first case in which the SEC has arrested investors for conspiring online, Freeman is said to have used his position as a temp at two Manhattan brokerages to glean information on mergers and acquisitions, information he then passed on to other investors in return for 10 percent of the profits. Not that he got the full kickback - an estimated $70,000 to $110,000 is said to have flowed into his mailbox via cash stuffed in unsigned birthday cards. "The SEC has been very interested in the area of fraud over the Internet, and this case is just an extension...
...Political pawn ___ Gonzalez 2 Year-end temp 3 He now runs the Kremlin 4 Al's predecessor 5 Avail oneself of 6 Republican also-runner 7 Itar-___ (Russian news agency) 8 McCain opposes its subsidies; Bradley used to 9 Thai's neighbor 10 A deg. held by some lawyers 12 Bradley/Gore pol. affiliation 16 She supported 26-Down's decision on 1-Down 20 Tiebreakers, briefly 23 Charged atom 24 Newspaper that broke the Paxson story 26 Org. that ruled that 1-Down should be returned to Cuba 27 Jetsam of 1773 28 Comedian Bill, to his friends 30 Cokie...