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When Mr Lampert said he wanted to quit, Mr Rubin told him he was giving up a golden career.

Kmart, which had just crawled out of bankruptcy in 2003, had a 300% jump in stock price thanks to Lampert's investment.

Lampert said the team specifically asked questions to get people to relive the angry episode.

Lampert pushed to get involved in deals, but Rainwater wanted him to stay focused on buying and selling stocks.

"Our study starts to look at how does this really affect the electrical system of the heart, " Lampert said.

Eddie Lampert looked like he was on top of the world in 2004 when he was still planning to merge giant retailers Kmart and Sears.

ESL Investments, the firm run by hotshot manager Eddie Lampert, has set up a fund with a five-year lock-up.

"These were people we know already had some vulnerability to arrhythmia, " Lampert said in a telephone interview.

Will Mr Lampert similarly have the last laugh?

For months there has been talk of deepening problems at Sears, a giant retailer of which Mr Lampert is the chairman and largest shareholder.

My prediction is that the next big investment move we see will come from Mr Lampert .

So I do not blame Mr Lampert for having difficulties with Sears .

Several hedge funds, once seen as Mr Lampert's acolytes, have sold their shares.

Over on the one-loss side Kyu Yi and Amanda Lampert were racing towards each other after each took an early loss.