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...sold 3,928 shares of ImClone Systems on the eve of an adverse ruling for its cancer drug Erbitux. Stewart could probably have come clean immediately and received a slap on the wrist from the Securities and Exchange Commission (sec). But by sticking to a bogus story, she turned a civil case into a criminal one. "When we first indicted this case, we said it was about lies, all about lies," says Kelley. "And as you saw in the evidence, that's what it was. Lies to the FBI, lies to [the sec] about very important matters...
...jurors will have to parse evidence based on accounting issues that are complex and deadly dull. And there are nagging questions as to why Ebbers, who held almost all his WorldCom stock until the bitter end, didn't dump more shares if he knew the price was propped with bogus financials...
...injustice of the skewed rewards of the tax cuts, and they are right to do so. But over-reliance on framing the issue in terms of winners and losers or the “two Americas” (real though those divisions are) exposes the Democrats to the bogus but potent charge of class warfare. “Strengthening democracy” would be a much more unifying aspiration...
...placebo effect works. In a study conducted at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Health System, the University of Michigan and Princeton, the subjects were given harmless but frequently painful electric shocks and then provided with what they were told was a pain-relieving cream. After the bogus cream was applied, nerve activity in the brains of the volunteers changed. The prefrontal cortex, involved in easing pain, became more active, while regions involved in sensing pain quieted down. When it comes to feeling less pain, it seems, you gotta believe...
...love to add another trophy to the one he took home for Gandhi (1982). But his ambitions are bigger than any industry prize. He's on a mission to restore the tradition of tragedy - think Shakespeare or Sophocles - in a world fond of "illusory and bogus" happy endings. His medium may be film, but Kingsley, 60, prefers the label "storyteller." "And when I use the word storyteller," he says, "I use it in the ancient tradition - one who excites, who shows, who heals." There seems to be a lot more hurting than healing in House of Sand and Fog, which...