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...symphony of blow horns welcomed the team as fans jammed sidewalks, shook pompoms and danced on the chimney tops of local commercial buildings...
...suspected of links to Djamel Beghal, another Franco-Algerian detained in France and believed to be a key associate of Osama bin Laden. Beghal lived in London and Leicester in the mid-1990s, frequenting extremist mosques. Even suspected shoe-bomber Richard Reid, the Anglo-Jamaican accused of trying to blow up an American Airlines plane, is alleged to have come into Beghal's orbit...
With 107 assists in just 16 games, she’s on pace to blow away the Crimson single-season assist record. Monti’s 6.5 assists per game is good for 15th in the nation. And her 1.95 assist-to-turnover ratio this season is more than a 40 percent improvement over her previous best...
...fact that Enron was able to hide its losses immediately raises the question of why Andersen, Enron’s auditor, did not blow the whistle. Much of the blame appears to fall on the codependent relationship of Enron and Anderson, but this situation is only indicative of a larger problem. The “Big Five” accounting firms often make more money from consulting fees from their audit clients than from audit fees themselves. They have the incentive to turn a blind eye to potentially illicit practices to make sure those consulting fees keep rolling...
...addition, a University should be a place of free and open discussion, not one of threats and coercion. West knows well that his loss would be a tremendous blow to this institution. He is one of Harvard’s best-known professors and has been a central figure in his field for a good while now. In addition to the intrinsic hurt of losing a noted scholar and a loved teacher, West’s loss would be an embarrassment to a University that prides itself on seeking out, employing and retaining the world’s finest faculty...