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...double-barreled leak had two targets. One was to tag Wilson as a tired, second-rate diplomat who couldn't get a job without his wife's help. The leakers also wanted to drop the hint that the CIA had purposefully chosen someone it believed would come back with a skeptical finding...
...Commodity Futures Trading Commission judge found that Slusser and two of his companies "pilfered millions of dollars from customers using the commodities market to carry out their scheme." Some of the money was funneled through accounts of Slusser's Sterling International Bank Ltd., which existed as a post office drop on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The commission barred Slusser and his firms from trading commodity futures and assessed a $10 million penalty, the largest ever in an administrative hearing. A U.S. appeals court, while acknowledging there had been "multiple frauds," reduced the fines to $600,000, which Slusser...
...North Mine, the work goes on round the clock, 365 days a year, in some of the worst weather on Earth. In summer the ground turns mushy, and the huge trucks bog down. "It's like working in peanut butter," says a Syncruder. In the winter, when temperatures can drop to -40°F, the oil sand is so hard it grinds up the shovels' steel teeth as if they were plastic combs. It's not unusual to replace the teeth after a single 12-hour shift. Suncorp, another oil-sands company, has an $8 million annual budget just...
...August, and many tracks got a bump--Saratoga set attendance records, and the crowd at Arlington Park, near Chicago, jumped 16%. But others actually fared worse. Summer attendance at Evangeline Downs in Lafayette, La., declined 3%, and Bay Meadows, near San Francisco, has seen a 2% drop this fall. Arlington Park's on-track handle is down 1% since the movie's release. "I haven't noticed any marked improvement since Seabiscuit," says Ryan Worst, an analyst for C.L. King & Associates. "People are smart enough to know that the depiction of an industry 60 years ago does not correlate with...
...made even more difficult with the team’s new game plan which calls for a 3-5-2—three defenders, five midfielders, and two forwards. Unlike a typical 4-4-2, the 3-5-2 calls for speedy wingmen who are able to drop back on defense and play offense more often than in other formations. The Tornaritises are just...