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...acknowledges the limitations of e-mail in winning prosecutions. "Prosecutors, defense attorneys and jurors will continue to see e-mails as powerful pieces of evidence," says Spitzer, who is now teaching a class on law and public policy at the City College of New York. "It's a powerful window into what someone is thinking at the time, but it's limited to that time and can often be misunderstood...
...secret information about public companies to inform investments that yielded some $60 million in profits over the past several years. The defendants, who also include traders, lawyers and executives at firms such as IBM and McKinsey & Co., now face hefty fines and years behind bars. (Read "Arrests Open a Window on Hedge-Fund Culture...
...Ecuador we found something in-between, which provided a big window into understanding how species form...
...stock ticker - a machine that tracked financial data over telegraph lines and stamped it on strips called ticker tape for the sound the printing made - had barely been around two decades before Wall Streeters realized that throwing its ribbony paper out the window was a fun way to celebrate. They first did it on Oct. 29, 1886, inspired by the ceremony to dedicate the Statue of Liberty. The practice was still a novelty 10 years later, when the New York Times reported that office workers had "hit on a new and effective scheme of adding to the decorations...
...evil" practice, suggesting that parade horses spooked by falling ticker tape might plow into the crowd on the sidewalk and cause "disaster." (A few years later, an overzealous reveler reportedly neglected to tear the pages out of a phone book and instead threw the whole thing out the window; it struck a passerby and knocked him unconscious.) By 1926, New York Stock Exchange officials had grown concerned about the cost of tossing miles of ticker tape out the window any time someone important came to town: they considered buying confetti to distribute to employees but decided against...