A Quest for Glory and a Bonus Ends in Disgrace
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The SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale worker who cost the French bank $7 billion in bad trades told investigators that all he wanted was to be respected, and to earn a big bonus.
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Irony alert: Game publisher is furious over stolen copy of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," in which players steal lots of stuff.
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Each time I leave one of these football championship games, I am not convinced that the right teams have reached the championship round. The current system needs to be fixed.
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In the world of sports, when a great feat is accomplished, sometimes it takes a while for everything to set in and for people to gain a full appreciation for what just transpired.
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: Anti-newspaper diatribes bewail falling standards. That's rubbish, and the glory days they hark back to were dreadful
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The campaigning is over. Talk of bubble teams and RPIs, quality wins and quality losses can be put away for another year.
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Joe Torre says he was  insulted by the incentives attached to the New York Yankees  contract offer he rejected this week, thereby ending his  12-year spell as manager.
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One Fool experiences more than two hours of lost pre-party productivity in a Barnes & Noble quest.
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The Boston Globe was forced to scrap its planned commemorative book â19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New Englandâs Unbeatable Patriots.â
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A high-profile promotion proves as risky as it is bungled.
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SCOT Euan Little&#39;s chase for a bumper pay packet ended in a soggy mess after a dramatic finale to golf&#39;s Dunhill Championship in South Africa.
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The month of August was rife with arrogance, malfeasance and criminality in professional sports, but all is not lost for cynical fans seeking a new start.
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The purists went berserk back in 1993. They hated the idea. The wild card was bad for baseball. Just wait and see.
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A Hall of Fame induction. With the NHL headed into ruins, if it&#39;s not there already. Talk about a maddening irony. It&#39;s kind of like having the winning lottery ticket the same week the state lottery commission goes belly-up.
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Tycho:  I was in a guild with the guy who started FigurePrints, and when he extended coupons to the old crew I snapped them up and gave them as Christmas presents.  None of my characters ever reached the highest echelons of Azerothian Fashion, so it seemed like they were better invested in Gabriel and Keek, who poured night after night into Battlegrounds and Active Volcanoes fighting dragons and whatnot. The coupons I have described are difficult to secure, only available in random drawings at random intervals, or if by some twist of fate you happen to have been guildmates with a cunning entrepreneur.  It's really a way to ennoble the lost years you plowed into that game.  It's the sort of thing you'd think a person would appreciate.
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After what was billed as the day of destiny for Great Britain&#39;s success-starved players and fans alike, there was a certain sense of inevitability about the result.
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As a point of personal honor, American Paul Hamm ought to give up the coveted all-around gold medal he won after a scoring error by Olympic judges.