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...Bacanovic, according to Faneuil, to exclaim, "Oh, my God, get Martha on the phone!" The amount of money at stake was trivial to someone as wealthy as Stewart, who had previously sold 20% of her ImClone holdings. Yet Martha is famously tightfisted and, as testimony showed, an extremely demanding client. She was traveling to a resort in Mexico with her friend Mariana Pasternak. But through a series of phone calls she learned what Waksal was up to. She called Faneuil, who told her Bacanovic thought she might like to act on the information, which she soon did. Pasternak testified that...
...exists in the Muslim world over the bloodier rituals of some Shiites. In an era of regime change and growing cultural hostilities, it might have done some westerners good to know that the fundamentalist Iranian government has banned self-mutilation rituals on religious grounds, and that even its terrorist client in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah, reportedly ran a blood drive this year as an alternative for worshipers whose holiday just wouldn’t be complete without a little bloodletting...
Afghan security officials complain that their Pakistani counterparts continue to tolerate--and even encourage--militancy by the Taliban, which Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, helped create in the mid-1990s in a bid to make Afghanistan a client state. At the highest levels, Pakistan's Establishment remains "nostalgic" for the Taliban, says a Western diplomat. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has cooperated in the hunt for al-Qaeda's top officials but has shown less enthusiasm for rooting out the Taliban. Until Pakistan's security services stop sheltering Taliban leaders, U.S. officials say, Afghanistan will never be free from...
...everyone they knew was trying to figure out a way to Silicon Valley. These two had a different idea. They would go to India, set up a team of accountants and desktop-publishing experts and persuade investment banks in New York to outsource their confidential financial documents and client presentations halfway around the world...
...chemical at the center of the recent indictments is tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), a substance that is manufactured, the government charges, by the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO), a maker of nutritional supplements, based in Burlingame, Calif., whose president, Victor Conte, was among the indicted men. BALCO, which boasts a client list that includes the San Francisco Giants' Bonds and the New York Yankees' Jason Giambi, claims it traffics only in legal supplements. The Department of Justice questions that, and in June an unnamed track coach gave the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) a syringe said to hold traces...