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...said. There are an estimated 4,800 people and/or funds who invested directly with Madoff and many more thousands who invested through pension and "feeder funds." In addition, there are an estimated tens of thousands invested with R. Allen Stanford's alleged $8 billion Ponzi and in the dozen or so Ponzis that have surfaced in the last three months...
...know each other in a professional setting.“We played intramural basketball games, sometimes on the same team, sometimes on opposing ones,” Sullivan said. “Obama was really very good, and he still is.”More than a dozen years later, after having taken separate paths with their law degrees, Obama and Sullivan extended their casual friendship. The President asked Sullivan to serve as an informal adviser during his historic bid for the White House.And just three months after Obama transcended racial barriers to become the first black president, Sullivan...
...positive note. Shalit's release would do that. However, though the Egyptian-brokered talks are top secret, Hamas is said to be exacting a high toll for Shalit's freedom. Press reports say the Islamists are demanding that Israel release 1,400 prisoners in three stages, including "several dozen" serving life senteces for multiple killings. This pains Israel because it means that terrorists "with blood on their hands," as the Israeli press says, will be set free to possibly strike again. As one minister said, "When the names of these terrorists are released, the earth will shake." A prisoner swap...
While over 300 students watched the action film Watchmen as part of CEB’s Dinner and a Movie, a few dozen spectators sat at the edge of their seats to see the finish of the Harvard women’s tennis match. Not only was there action at the Murr Center, but drama...
...Council include Timothy D. Turner ’09, president of the Black Students Association, as well as the political action chairs from the Chinese Students Association, the Black Pre-Law Association, and the South Asian Men’s Collective, according to Cox, who said around a dozen students regularly attend the meetings held once every two weeks. Cox said the IOP has engaged in diversity initiatives before, but that McGee’s plan represents a distinct approach. “Honor gets the IOP and she gets the racial and cultural groups around campus...