Tis the Season to Be Wary
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Mattel and its Fischer Price unit recall millions of imported toys tainted with lead paint.
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Students Learn a Costly Lesson
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Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of New York uncovers kickbacks in college loans.
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Sometimes, Icahn Can't
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Carl Icahn loses a very public proxy fight with Motorola C.E.O. Ed Zander.
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Defenestrations on Wall Street
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Several Wall Street titans, including Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch, above, are kicked out.
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Daddy Dearest
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Media mogul Sumner Redstone threatens to disinherit his daughter and putatitve corporate successor, Shari.
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Reminder: Trust, but Verify
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Credit ratings agencies failed to find the weaknesses in a generation of new mortgage-backed securities.
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Black Eye for Privatization
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Trigger-happy contractors in Iraq—notably Blackwater, whose C.E.O., Erik Prince, was summoned to testify before Congress—raise doubts about having the private sector handle some government jobs.
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With Friends Like These...
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Convicted fraud Norman Hsu's lavish financial support of Hillary Clinton rekindled the debate over the role of corporate cash in politics.
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Insiders Outed
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Allegations of insider trading by Airbus executives led to parliamentary hearings into the world's biggest aircraft maker. Financial director Dominique Marcel, left, and chief executive Ausutin de Romanet of a French state-owned bank talk to parliamentary commission member Didier Migaud, right, before testifying at one hearing.
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Tower of Sour
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Carlyle Group has been successful in arranging leveraged buyouts. Not so in setting up publicly traded real estate subsidiaries.
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