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[Opinionator] Will Wall Street Be Saved by Porn? - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com: A senior attorney at the SEC’s Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office.

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