Ann Woolner

April 05, 2011 | Daily Report Online

If you want to know why so few women hold executive positions at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., here's the answer the Walton Institute gives out to management trainees:Women aren't as aggressive at seeking promotions as men.Not surprisingly, women at Wal-Mart have a different explanation: Management stereotypes employees by gender see example above.

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September 20, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Ian Gershengorn was at it again for the third time-and not the last-defending the legality of the national health care overhaul against an onslaught of angry naysayers. "The state is free to disagree with the policy judgment of Congress," he told the judge at the close of his argument. "It's not free to overturn 75 or 100 years of constitutional law.

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October 19, 2009 | Daily Report Online

College coaches who cheat at recruiting, congressmen on the take, executives who lie to stockholders. There is a crime for that, for all of that. It's a 21-year-old statute that calls it fraud to "deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." But, just when we really could use such a flexible law to go after more white-collar scoundrels, the U.

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February 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

WHEN THE FULL SCOPE of Enron Corp.'s duplicity began unfolding, fingers pointed at an array of apparent accomplices. Accountants who concocted hiding places for losses. Investment bankers who financed sham deals. Lawyers who approved all of it. Without such complicity, the primary schemers at Enron would have been stopped in their tracks.

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September 14, 2010 | Daily Report Online

With people like Newt Gingrich whipping the waters, a wave of American Islamophobia is raising the frightening prospect of Shariah law being imposed here. Will it become legal in the U.S. for Muslim men to beat their wives Will chopping off hands become the penalty for burglary Or, in a less violent mode, should we worry because U.

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January 18, 2006 | Daily Report Online

by Ann WoolnerAfter U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito spent 18 hours answering the questions of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats complained they didn't learn enough about him.He sounded so forthcoming at first, going on at length about respecting precedent, keeping an open mind and putting no man above or below the law.

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January 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Those who years ago bought Tribune Co. bonds now are hurling nasty claims at the so-deserving Sam Zell, the real estate magnate whose takeover loaded the storied newspaper company with so much debt that it fell into bankruptcy. Longtime bondholders accuse Zell of borrowing more than the company was worth to make the deal, thus jeopardizing their stakes in what had been until then a solvent company.

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July 19, 2010 | Daily Report Online

Love your iPhone and hate the ATT service it chains you to Tired of calls dropped in mid-sentence There is a suit for that. As the cacophony of complaints about vanishing calls from the newest iPhone was reaching a fever pitch last week, a federal judge in California quietly ruled that iPhone owners-all of you out there-can join a case against Apple Inc.

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January 04, 2005 | Daily Report Online

Ann Woolner For those who hoped to see errant corporate executives trotted out for trial, 2004 was a good year. In fact, it was historic. Never before have so many high-level executives of publicly traded companies been tried for corporate crimes in a single year, says Alan R. Bromberg, a securities law professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

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October 04, 2005 | Daily Report Online

by Ann WoolnerAt 49, Lance Madison sits ramrod straight as he describes how he and his mentally retarded brother were looking for relief from the flood waters of New Orleans, only to meet up with gun-wielding teenagers who opened fire on them. "We ran for our lives," he said. The gunfire grew heavier after armed men showed up in trucks and shot at them, too, Madison told a judge last week.

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