Joe Roby of Credit Suisse First Boston, which may face criminal charges in New York in connection with swapping hot IPO shares for banking business, left in June when his two-year term expired.

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"You have the rockabilly artists who are essentially having a great deal of fun and basically swapping out hot rods for spacecraft, " says Bill Geerhart, who runs a Web site and the Atomic Platters record label, both devoted to Cold War music.

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The end result was that nobody knew who was on pole and the top 10 drivers got out of their cars and were swapping times to work out who had actually set the hot lap.

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