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...past few weeks, Stanford, who operates Antigua-based Stanford International Bank, and his companies had fallen under the eye of the FBI, the SEC and other regulatory bodies...
...down as one of the most thrilling in the tournament’s history. The team reached the final by dispatching No. 7 Stanford and No. 3 Penn in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds, respectively.The defeat marks the third time in the last five years that the Crimson has fallen in the Howe Cup final, although this one was certainly the closest.“The whole team was incredibly ready for this match,” junior captain Johanna Snyder said. “We went out there, totally in the zone. Luck just didn?...
...Pandora's box offers a continuing metaphor for their use. And its moral proved true in the collapsed tunnels of Dura-Europos: among the Roman bodies, James spied one corpse set aside from the rest, which wore differing armor and carried a jade-hilted sword. This was a fallen Persian soldier, James concludes, also asphyxiated by the gas. The warrior who released the poison very likely succumbed...
There aren't many writers who have ascended into the literary ionosphere and then fallen back down to earthly obscurity with the nose-bleeding steepness of Barthelme. In the 1970s, he was considered the future of literature, and he still has fanatical supporters, my family being Exhibit A. But mostly he's regarded as a dead, twisted branch on the evolutionary tree of American letters. The first major biography of him, Tracy Daugherty's Hiding Man (St. Martin's; 581 pages), should help correct that...
Lyudinovo is no stranger to unemployment: it suffered a bad bout in the early 1990s, when several of the town's factories closed and 4,000 workers lost their jobs. But by October, after a run of good years, the number of unemployed people had fallen to just 320. That number doubled in November, and for this year, all bets are off. "This is just the beginning," says Pronin, the newspaper editor, with worry...