Monthly Archives: February 2011

“I think I’m doing great, so I have to return something to the country. I think what I did was correct, correct?”

Zubiru M. Jalloh, the New York City cab driver who returned $100,000 in jewelry and cash that was left in his cab by a passenger.  Mr. Jalloh, from Sierra Leone, has become a national hero there for the positive PR … Continue reading

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Dior and CBS – Profiles in Courage

Christian Dior suspended “without hesitation” one of its top designers, John Galliano, for allegedly making anti-Semitic remarks.  Two days later, Mr. Galliano was terminated. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, CBS halted production of the Charlie Sheen hit television show, “Two and … Continue reading

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Felonious Fads

Lindsay Lohan arrived for her court appearance on felony charges (she is alleged to have stolen a $2,500 necklace) clad in a clingy designer mini-dress (Kimberly Ovitz).  Once the photos of Lohan in Ovitz hit the intertent, the dress sold out around the … Continue reading

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Angelo Mozilo, Everybody Did It, and the Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins

Angelo Mozilo, the former CEO of Countrywide Mortgage, whose perpetual tan and leathery look bring the phrase, “Can melanoma be far behind?” enjoyed a defense from the Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins.  Mr. Jenkins never met a slotting fee, an … Continue reading

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The Golfer and the Warm-Up

It was a golf fan/television viewer who knew his rules and wrote in via a blog, “So I guess there were no LPGA officials on hand at the event to tell her she couldn’t do that?” The “that” was LPGA … Continue reading

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In the pot and kettle department . . . WikiLeaks Suing a Former Staff Member for Taking Documents with Him

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former WikiLeaks staffer, is being sued by WikiLeaks for what he reveals in his new book, “Inside WikiLeaks:  My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website.”  Mr. Domscheit-Berg has another website, “OpenLeaks.”  WikiLeaks also … Continue reading

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“Let’s go see (auditors) Friehling and Horowitz the next time we’re in N.Y. . . . To see that the address isn’t a car wash at least.”

J.P. Morgan Chase employee from the company’s due diligence team, expressing his concern that Bernie Madoff’s operation might be a Ponzi scheme.  The Madoff bankruptcy trustee has filed suit against J.P. Morgan for its failure to speak up when it had internal … Continue reading

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