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...would have liked to have broken [Princeton] up a bit and not let them have that perfect score,” Crimson coach Jason Saretsky said. “But you have to tip your hat to them. They are a very, very talented squad, and they came to take care of business...
...suited postcolonial theorists gnawing at their pencils. In the fifth installment of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures this Monday, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk waxed troubled before a packed audience in Sanders Theatre. The American writer, he said, has the luxury of dabbling in regionalist vernacular (a hat tip to his beloved Faulkner); in contrast, the Turkish novelist is doomed to make a “museum” of his fiction, preserving his culture and displaying it to Europe by packing in as many observations as he can. Rather than being a thing of beauty, this edifice crumbles...
...July 19, 2007, Google reported earnings that were lower than what analysts had expected, and the tech company's stock price dropped 5% - but Raj Rajaratnam made $9 million. Allegedly, the New York hedge-fund manager had gotten a tip that Google's earnings would be below expectations, so he was prepared with short positions and put options that would become more valuable as the stock price fell. The alleged source of the tip: an employee at an investor-relations firm that helped Google announce its earnings who wanted to be paid for similar informational gems in the future...
...successfully prosecute a person who receives insider information and then trades on it (such as a hedge-fund manager), the government must show that the person knew the information came from a breach of duty. In the case of Rajaratnam's alleged Google stock tip, he didn't talk to the source of the information directly but rather to a middleman informant. That middleman purportedly told Rajaratnam who the tipster was - thus revealing the breach of duty. For that particular charge, that communication is key. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
Naturally, the transition from in-person to online isn't without its hiccups. Fuzzy transmissions, dropped calls (especially on wireless networks) and unusual disruptions are all par for the course. Tip No. 1: Get your dog out of barking range before you start the interview. (We'll return to the pointers in a bit.) (See pictures of the history of the cell phone...