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Brokers are required to ask a client the nature of a stock sale. If it's a short sale, the broker must ascertain if the client has been able to borrow the stock. "I have seen evidence that links Badian and/or Refco to more than 50 stocks that were driven into the ground," says Wes Christian, part of a legal team headed by billionaire Texas tobacco litigator John O'Quinn, who is amassing a case against Badian, other hedge funds and now possibly Refco. Refco declined to comment. Badian didn't come to the door when a TIME reporter rang...
Schuker said that in order for The Crimson to investigate issues like the possibility of HUPD racial profiling and ascertain the frequency of sexual assault in the community, it would need reports that are not currently available...
Over the next five days, as other NBA teams prepped for the season, Katrina overwhelmed the Hornets' business plans. The team set up a Yahoo! site to ascertain if workers were alive. Martin's father, 78 years old and eight months past triple-bypass surgery, had refused to leave his home. He was now missing, and Martin feared the worst. By Friday, Sept. 2, Mott located everyone. Martin found his dad in an Austin, Texas, shelter; he had spent three days in the squalid Superdome...
Shahnawaz Bhutto was found dead on July 18 in the Cannes apartment where he lived with his Afghan-born wife and three-year-old daughter. French authorities, hoping to ascertain what killed him, did not release the body for three weeks. The delay was attributed partly to the fact that since the burial would be in Pakistan, there would be no further opportunity to conduct forensic tests. Inevitably, Bhutto's sudden and unexplained death spawned rumors of political intrigue, including the possibility that he had been murdered...
Almost all of South Africa's leading white liberals warn that disinvestment would send a political message exactly the opposite of the one its advocates desire. The views of South African blacks are harder to ascertain. Some favor disinvestment but cannot say so publicly because that might violate security laws. Those who have spoken up are generally opposed to it. On a California speaking tour last spring, Bishop Tutu gave many the impression that he favored disinvestment. In Johannesburg after his return, however, he declared, "I am not as yet myself calling for disinvestment...