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...date, SIPC and Picard have committed $116 million to satisfy claims from 237 Madoff victims, each receiving up to the limit of $500,000. Picard has even created a "Hardship Case" program, in an effort to help those that have been completely wiped out by their Madoff investments...
...work put into the season by both coach and players paid off, as Harvard earned a share of the EIVA Hay Division title, going 6-2 in conference play while defeating league foes East Stroudsburg, NYU, and Rutgers-Newark along the way. Topping it all off for the turnaround effort was the Crimson’s first appearance in the playoffs since the 2004-05 season...
...Chicago. The kits, which include vials of the drug naloxone (brand name Narcan), commonly used in hospitals and ambulances to reverse opiate overdose, have led to at least 1,000 successful overdose reversals in the city since 2001, according to Bigg. They are now part of a growing nationwide effort to stem the increasing rate of accidental drug-related fatalities...
...international capital markets. "Again, it was a cost-benefit choice for them, and in that case, it was clear the costs were much worse than the benefit of standing by Pyongyang," says a former U.S. intelligence official. Washington ultimately dropped those sanctions in lieu of a diplomatic effort to entice North Korea to give up its nukes...
...That effort will now at least go into abeyance, if only because Pyongyang clearly has no interest in accepting U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's invitation, issued this week, to return to the six-party talks. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak in Seoul flatly told President Obama earlier this week not to go back to simply trying to bribe the North out of its nuclear program. Japan is more or less in the same place. China, which could inflict considerable economic pain on Pyongyang by cutting off trade and fuel shipments, now must decide whether...