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...have a strategic investor to oversee its conduct. Depositors panicked last June and took out some $440 million in deposits in just three days. On June 16, two dozen members of the Czech antiterrorist police, wielding submachine guns, took over the bank's downtown headquarters at the government's behest and sent management packing...
Last week, at the behest of Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, the Faculty Council discussed expanding the freshman seminar program and allowing seminars to count for concentration credit. We recommend an aggressive expansion of the program, and the acceptance of these reforms would be a welcome first step...
SCOOP-FREE OLYMPICS Planning to watch streaming video of those tense synchronized-diving heats on the Net? Think again. The International Olympic Committee, at the behest of its well-heeled television licensees (principally NBC), has barred all video footage of the Games from the Web. Why? NBC won't be broadcasting any events live from Sydney, and the network chieftains don't want to be undercut by enterprising Webmasters. Now if only they'd ban those annoying Olympic mascots...
...National Shooting Sports Foundation (www.nssf.org), the powerful firearms industry trade association, announced that it was joining with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to sponsor "Don't Lie for the Other Guy," an attempt at preventing gun purchases by girlfriends, brothers, buddies or paid middlemen at the behest of felons barred from gun ownership...
About two weeks after the first disappointing round with Furlow, Kiser-Mostrom flew back to the East Coast one more time at Furlow's behest. She says Furlow told her Roxanne had changed her mind. But in the end, Roxanne's mother supposedly took the child. When Kiser-Mostrom returned home to Nebraska, she noticed an Internet posting that made inquiries about Furlow. She replied and met Charles Elliott, a Philadelphia fraud examiner who had been hired to investigate Furlow by another victimized couple. He had posted the inquiry to find Furlow's other clients. Within weeks, he handed over...