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SeaRaven · **Posted:** Mon Mar 01, 2004 5:51 pm

T*A*N synonymania runs amok:The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Telling careful lies but making careless mistakes, Martha Stewart and her stockbroker were bent on keeping investigators from the truth about why the homemaking icon â€¦I thought AP style was the domestic diva (?)

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Tue Mar 02, 2004 8:45 pm

by The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Martha Stewart's lawyer implored the jury in closing arguments at her stock-fraud trial Tuesday to let her ""return to her life and improving the quality of life for all of us.''
""If you do that,'' Robert Morvillo said, echoing the homemaking expert's slogan, ""It's a good thing.''

paulwiggins · **Posted:** Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:25 pm

high-flying entrepreneur or colorful decor identity are two old stand-bys waiting to be blue-pencilled[ March 02, 2004: Message edited by: Paul Wiggins ]

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2004 6:58 pm

The Baltimore Sun
NEW YORK - Successful, accomplished people such as Martha Stewart and Peter Bacanovic probably don't have to hear that snippy question: If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? But as attorneys for the gracious-living guru and her stockbroker gave their final statements ...

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:13 pm

Los Angeles Times
NEW YORK - If a perfectionist like Martha Stewart were going to cook up a conspiracy (Hah! Get it?), her chief defense lawyer argued Tuesday, the result would never be as sloppy and inconsistent as the one the government alleges.
Robert G. Morvillo, in a three-hour closing statement in federal court, pointed to the ""major, gaping, huge holes'' in the alleged cover story of Stewart and her former stockbroker, Peter E. Bacanovic, to insist that the government's theory makes no sense.
The inconsistencies in the two defendants' recollections of Stewart's Dec. 27, 2001, sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock and the events that followed point instead to innocent memory flaws - lapses that were blown out of proportion by a government ""overreaching'' to prosecute the celebrity entrepreneur, Morvillo argued.

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:05 pm

The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Jurors at the Martha Stewart stock trial finished a second day of deliberations Thursday after indicating they were focused on whether they had enough evidence to convict her former broker of perjury. Jurors also asked to examine the testimony of a Securities and Exchange Commission attorney who interviewed Peter Bacanovic, Stewart's broker and co-defendant, twice in 2002.
Bacanovic and the domestic-style mogul are accused of lying about her 2001 sale of ImClone Systems stock....

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:13 pm

The Washington Post
NEW YORK - Martha Stewart's fate is now in the hands of eight women and four men from New York City and its suburbs.
The jury got the criminal case against Stewart, 62, and her former broker Peter Bacanovic, 41, at about 11:45 a.m. Wednesday after hearing 1 1/2 hours of legal instructions from U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum.
""You will now have to decide where the truth lies,'' Cedarbaum said. ""You should use your common sense, good judgment and experience.''
The panel members had lunch with six alternate jurors before settling down to the task at hand and went home at 5 p.m. after making requests to see eight separate pieces of evidence ranging from Bacanovic's phone records to the transcript of testimony from government star witness Douglas Faneuil.
Stewart and Bacanovic are charged with conspiring, making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation into the domestic entrepreneur's Dec. 27, 2001, sale of ImClone Systems Inc.

paulwiggins · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:18 pm

A radical idea: How about the defendent.

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2004 6:26 pm

How about Stewart or her?

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:24 pm

Sometimes, T*A*N synonymania even introduces errors:The Associated Press
... With shares of Disney trading higher Thursday, analysts and industry observers are left wondering whether Eisner can lead Disney until his contract expires in two years or whether the board's move will be enough to fend off further assaults from dissidents as well as cable giant Comcast Corp., which has made an unwelcome bid to acquire the Magic Kingdom.No, the bid is for the whole dang shootin' match, not just one theme park.

paulwiggins · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:32 pm

I imagine most of us would be familar with it but what The King's English has to say on the matter still warms the cockles of my heart.

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:48 am

Paul, thanks for that excellent link. Good stuff.

DominEditrix · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 3:40 pm

And now someone can call her the "fashionable felon"...

Matthew Grieco · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:08 pm

I have to admit, I'm stunned she was convicted. I didn't think the prosecution had a prayer.

jjmoney62 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 4:17 pm

It is a surprise. The latest AP story calls her the "uber-homemaker."

DominEditrix · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:43 pm

<blockquote>quote:<hr>Originally posted by jjmoney62:
It is a surprise. The latest AP story calls her the "uber-homemaker."<hr></blockquote>And now we have lifestyle diva from CNN.

ADKbrown · **Posted:** Fri Mar 05, 2004 7:40 pm

She now can aspire, a la Michael Milken, to become a "securities felon turned philanthropist."

newsdesigner · **Posted:** Sat Mar 06, 2004 2:34 pm

I believe that Maureen Dowd, way back when she was occasionally mildly amusing, once referred to her as "Big Nurse with a pastry bag."

SeaRaven · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:42 pm

A two-fer!Newsday
NEW YORK - Martha Stewart resigned Monday from the board and as chief creative officer of the media empire she built, a little more than a week after she was convicted of lying to investigators related to a 2001 stock sale.
The self-made queen of domestic arts - whose name has been stamped on magazines, TV shows and household products - will remain affiliated with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. in a new non-executive role of founding editorial director. ... ... Following (nice preposition there) the guilty verdict on four federal charges, the company suffered more blows. Her syndicated television show, ""Martha Stewart Living,'' was dropped by Viacom; and The New York Times said two columns its syndicate distributes would be renamed, dropping any references to Stewart, and would be written by people other than the homemaking queen.

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