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...when the Brasco mole surfaced and indictments fluttered like ticker tape around the Bonanno family, Massino lammed it to the Pocono Mountains. He lived out of a suitcase, using the alias Joseph Russo, and spent weekends with a mistress at lakeside resorts, court records say. After several years, he turned himself in and twice stood trial, in '86 and '87. At the first one, he was found guilty of labor racketeering, along with then boss Rastelli and Teamsters from Local 814, and spent five years in prison. It was while he was there, when Rastelli died of natural causes...
...Yankees win, their fans can sit back, their innumerable insecurities temporarily squelched by the sheer athletic power their millions of dollars can muster. But when the Sox win, Boston fans run jubilantly in the streets—a Boston World Series victory would be more than just another ticker-tape parade, it would be another Tea Party. Plain and simply, Boston victories have soul. Even usually cynical Harvard undergraduates have put their books down, donned the ever-more ubiquitous Sox hats and gathered in dining halls and common rooms to watch the Red Sox decimate their opponents...
RENAMED. AOL TIME WARNER, parent company of TIME; to Time Warner; by the company's board of directors, three years after the announcement of the trouble-plagued corporate merger; in New York City. Of expunging the name of its online unit--which will mean changing the company's ticker symbol (to TWX) and its logo--CEO Dick Parsons said, "We believe that our new name better reflects the portfolio of our valuable businesses and ends any confusion between our corporate name and the America Online brand name...
...Grasso, the lifelong exchange employee with ticker tape in his veins and a trademark shaved head. Highly respected for his leadership and results, he has become tossed about in the battle over corporate governance because of a pay flap that won't go away. The tipping point came last week when the exchange, in a letter responding to inquiries from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman William Donaldson, detailed a trove of Grasso enrichments--from the requisite car and driver, private-jet privileges and club memberships to a previously undisclosed $48 million in benefits due him by 2007. That...
...sure, a company can emerge from bankruptcy stronger--and profitable. But the "new" company will issue a "new" stock, so any stock you purchased before it comes out of bankruptcy usually has no value. How can you tell if the stock is old or new? If its ticker symbol ends in Q, that's the signal to "get out quick." A "Q" means the company is in bankruptcy, and even the pros say figuring out details of who gets what, and when, is difficult. "The information flow can be very sketchy. Management is in turmoil. It's a very imperfect...