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Lehman Brothers C.E.O. Dick Fuld expected his top executives to get married, and stay married. For their wives, the firm was both fishbowl and shark tank, with unwritten rules about the clothes they wore, the charities they supported, and the hikes they t

Michael Burry always saw the world differently—due, he believed, to the childhood loss of one eye. So when the 32-year-old investor spotted the huge bubble in the subprime-mortgage bond market, in 2004, then created a way to bet against it, he wasn’t

While Michael Douglas reprises his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko, he is also focused on another sequel: the successive father-son problems that have wounded three generations of Douglases. The author hears how the 65-year-old star made peace with his

Oliver Stone’s 1987 Wall Street succeeded brilliantly in capturing a culture, and failed miserablyas a call for change. To the director’s dismay, thousands of financial hotshots dreamed of becoming Gordon Gekko—and the rest is recent history. Antici

In this tight job market, many job candidates can easily slip into the mindset that they should be grateful for any offer that emerges. But should that really be the case?While job seekers must certainly be more flexible in this time of high unemployment,

With She's Out of My League now in theaters, we compiled this list of our favorite babes who fell for brains rather than brawn. (Except in Seth Rogen's case.)

Earlier today, I came upon the site of a man who is building his own jet-powered motorcycle. That's right. He's converting turbochargers into jet engines and building a motorcycle around them. But that's not all; there are apparently a lot of these cra

The island's oldest and most venerable smokes have been superseded by the new kids on the block

"Oooh, baby! Yes! That's right! Ooooh, YES!"I travel a lot for research and often stay in hotels that are old or shabbily built so I am used to hearing yowls of passion coming through thin walls from the room nextdoor. I really, really hate those sounds.

A new Iraq war documentary features footage shot by a soldier who lived it, putting the viewer into the chaos like never before.

Our country is in the midst of a fifteen year "epidemic" of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). There are six potential causes for the skyrocketting rates of ADD- but only five have been real contributors. The most obvious explanation is by far the least li

Although Bow Wow has said that money doesn’t really make him happy, it sure does buy you a dope ass crib! Bow Wow’s stunning 14,000-square-foot mansion in Atlanta, Georgia is anything less than spectacular. Actually, it we don’t know whether we’d

We're cravin' to see this Ravin!

Our country is in the midst of a fifteen year "epidemic" of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). There are six potential causes for the skyrocketting rates of ADD- but only five have been real contributors. The most obvious explanation is by far the least li

If the honeybee has a mantra it is, protect the future. When honeybees discover a lucrative patch of nectar, the entire colony does not rush out to harvest it no matter how rewarding it is in the short run. Honeybees understand that they are playing for k