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Cinderella (fall in love with your favorite fairy tale all over again) r-. * Sip v ■J % \ Those step-sisters are so wicked! The step-sisters i have their go at the prince first. /Jm i Cinderella meets i j the handsome ) prince next. 9r'' Hr / .UjC- tiiiltO'lOJ They look pretty good together, don’t they? appily ever afterl What is it about this story that inspires so many? Perhaps it’s the sympathy for the title character, the fantasia of the pumpkin carriage, the optimism of the Fairy Godmother, or, in this case, the breathtaking dance by the Moscow Festival Ballet. You’ve read it many times. Now, witness CINDERELLA in its most magical and enchanting form, ballet. CINDERELLA Moscow Festival Ballet | Company of 50 Saturday, February 7 at 7:30 PM Sunday, February 8 at 2:00 PM TICKETS 845-1 234 www.MSCOPAS.org *\Y* e V eorW^s aXe*? W: PATRICIA S. PETERS LAGNIAPPE LECTURE SERIES: How does a ballet become a fairy tale? Join us for an informal discussion about CINDRELLA with a representative from the Moscow Festival Ballet. Presented by The OPAS Guild, the discussion will be held one hour prior to the performances in the Forsyth Center Galleries of the MSG. buy tickets, be inspired MSC OPAS Three Decades of Performing Arts enflaliten entertain inip ire \ AGGIELIFE THE BATTALION Thursday, January29, Merrill Lynch official testifie as domestic diva’s trial begin By Erin McClam THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Prosecutors began laying the foundation of their case against Martha Stewart, while her attorney suggested the government’s pur suit of the homemaking queen was reminiscent of George Orwell’s Big Brother novel “1984.” Stewart’s trial got under way Tuesday before a jury of eight women and four men. They heard three hours of opening statements that outlined starkly different portrayals of Stewart’s sale of nearly 4,000 shares of biotechnology company ImClone Systems. The prosecution’s first witness, a Merrill Lynch & Co. official, testified that Stewart’s ex-stockbro ker — accused of tipping Stewart off that ImClone founder Sam Waksal was dumping his company’s stock — had signed an agreement prohibiting firm employees from discussing one client’s transactions with another. Prosecutors say Stewart and the broker, Peter Bacanovic, later lied to cover up the tip. Waksal later admitted he had early word of a negative gov ernment report about ImClone. The two claim they had struck a deal earlier in December to sell Stewart’s 3,928 shares of ImClone when it fell to $60 per share. The other government witness who testified Tuesday was Daniel Lynch, acting CEO of ImClone, who told jurors about the mechanics of the com pany’s application for government approval of the drug Erbitux in 2001. U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum ordered the trial suspended for Wednesday because of heavy snow forecast for the New York area. Testimony was to resume Thursday — probably including Douglas Faneuil, a former Merrill assis tant and the government’s star witness against Stewart and Bacanovic. Faneuil is expected to testify that he passed the Waksal tip from Bacanovic to Stewart — testimony that, if jurors believe it, would poke holes in the Stewart-Bacanovic $60 agreement. Lawyers for both defendants have already hinted they will attack Faneuil’s credibility, portraying him as a repeated liar who was willing to tell the gov ernment anything it wanted to hear in exchange for a plea deal. Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Patton Seymour said Stewart had sold ImClone on “a secret tip” that no one else had, then told an avalanche of fe save her reputation and enormous fortune. And she said Bacanovic made sure thaUo Waksal’s sale was passed along to Stewan. “He knew he couldn’t do it,” she said. “B« didn’t want his friend Martha Stewart sitting stock that was about to be obliterated by badne Stewart attorney Robert Morvillo suggest; government’s pursuit of the domestic style-)! was reminiscent of George Orwell’s Big Bk novel “1984.” He lashed out at Congress for leaking in the; mer of 2(X)2 that Waksal had directly tipped St about the Erbitux decision, suggesting it w* work of politicians hungry for attention in midterm election. “Same government— 1 leal: one side, prosecute it on theoq Morvillo said disdainfully. “|j that George Orwell was justr 20 years too early,” he said, alia to the novel ” 1984” that desa an all-intrusive government Morvillo never flatly deniei Stewart was tipped to the W; sale. But he described Steur December 2001 as weary fror holidays, and finally willing ic low Bacanovic’s repeated S& tions to get rid of ImClone. He also said Stewart waste: the truth in an April 2002 inter w ith investigators in which sht she did not recall such a tip. ITie prosecutor told jurors would hear evidence that Ste tried to pump up the stock of her own coup Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, with; accounts of the ImClone investigation in 2002 Seymour noted that the company dependt: Stew an's image, and that for every dollar then company's stock fell. Stewart stood to loseSK lion. Denying that she was tipped, Seynxwi was “another pure and simple lie.” “Martha Stewart was determined to pu own interests ahead of her own investor, prosecutor said. “And so she lied over and during a key period, to try to keep the ptv; MSLO from falling.” Stew art faces up to 30 years in prison ondu® that include obstruction of justice and secclf fraud, but would get a far lighter penalty ifcop ed. Bacanovic is also charged with five counts faces a maximum 25 years. He didn't want his friend Martha Stewart sitting on a stock that was about to be oblit erated by bad news. — Karen Patton Seymour Assistant U.S. Attorney General D said telev “1 istry a sh< good V atten will I ed fi an o| realii “1 show “I’m up d B Texa 5.001 Fi are 1 Trait Marl and Rant aero: said. mon aero C duce 1-1 with ing with [ and S appt Fear and • • superstition killed people last year Do you secretly fear that in an emergency, docti will not save your life just to get your organ Misunderstandings about organ donation aj costing people their lives — in fact, 6,483 peop^ died last year while waiting for a transplant Get a brochure in the Memorial Student Cent? or health center and get the facts about org* donation. Don't let your fears about orgaf donation keep you from signing a dontf card and talking to your fan# Come talk to us at the i or the Blocker Building $ February 11 from 9am-3 GET THE FACTS YOUR FAMILY