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Rajat Gupta, Raj Rajaratnam, and Gupta’s insatiable ‘need for greed’

‘Having fallen from respected insider to convicted inside trader, Mr. Gupta has now exchanged the lofty boardroom for the prospect of a lowly jail cell’ — Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan.

‘What did Mr. Gupta get by giving Raj this information? A need for greed’ — Ronnie Sesso, juror

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/rajat-gupta-convicted-of-insider-trading/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-15/rajat-gupta-convicted-of-insider-trading-by-u-s-jury.html

‘A Dirty Business: New York’s top prosecutor [Preet Bharara] takes on Wall Street crime’, George Packer in The New Yorker, June 27, 2011:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/27/110627fa_fact_packer?currentPage=all

Khan Academy founder Salman Khan’s commencement address at MIT, June 2012

The Khan Academy is a splendid concept. Sal Khan could and should have done a better commencement address at his alma mater but here’s the mixture of the banal and the inspirational:

Text: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/commencement-khan-address-0608.html

Video: http://amps-web.amps.ms.mit.edu/public/comm2012/Khan/

http://www.khanacademy.org/