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The investigation began on a shoestring in June 2001, when the attorney general's office, inspired in part by a Wall Street Journal article, issued a subpoena to Merrill asking for documents related to GoTo.com and another Internet company, InfoSpace. Spitzer dusted off the Martin Act, a 1921 New York...
Spitzer is still working out the details of a separate case against five CEOs, calling on them to return profits made from stock offerings arranged by Salomon Smith Barney. On the basis of another roundup of e-mail, Spitzer says that Jack Grubman, then Salomon's chief telecommunications analyst, engaged...
While both Bush and Cheney are political creatures, they are of utterly different species. Bush loves the foreplay of politics; Cheney can't stand it. Bush learned it at his father's knee; Cheney came to it much later and as a student. Worse, he was a student of political...
It's not much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart...
Now we do. The diuretics turned out to be just as effective as ACE inhibitors and calcium channel blockers in treating hypertension, and were associated with fewer complications. That's good news for patients, since diuretics are cheap: they cost about $25 a year, in contrast to $250 for ACE...