Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara could not have been more withering yesterday in his attack on what he depicted as a culture of fraud on Wall Street, as he gave a press conference announcing insider-trading charges against three hedge fund managers, Noah Freeman and Donald Longueuil, formerly of SAC Capital Advisors, and Samir Barai, who ran Barai Capital Management.

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He has not defended the science against the ongoing, withering and dishonest attacks.

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But controlling piracy will not solve the chief problem the Internet poses for the record companies: the withering away of manufacturing and distribution.

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But no ASEAN leader - not even Malaysia's blunt-spoken Mahathir Mohamad - has delivered such a withering blast at a fellow member state as Wahid directed at Singapore.

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