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...will spend the rest of his life behind bars at a federal prison. The Bureau of Prisons decides where a criminal ends up, based on a formula and any special security needs. One possible spot is a medium-security facility in Otisville, N.Y. Often referred to as Club Fed, the prison is located 70 miles northwest of New York City and generally handles white-collar criminals from the Southern New York Judicial District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Deal for Madoff, As Victims Prepare to Face Him in Court | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...Trailing by one, the final seconds ticking down, Bears forward Chris Skrelja fed teammate Garrett Leffellman on the right wing. Leffellman, who had been cold shooting the entire game—going 0-5 behind the arc up until that moment—launched a fade-away three-pointer with a hand in his face. The ball fell through the net, delighting the crowd and sending the Crimson home with a gut-wrenching loss...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Bears Return Favor in Last-Minute Thriller | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...competence is to do what he's been doing: work. His appearances before Congress since the bank speech have been solid, and if those who only heard of him in the past month have a poor impression, those who watched him in his previous job at the New York Fed tend to believe he has the skills to meet the daunting tasks before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tim Geithner's Hiring! And His Critics Hope It's Soon | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...schools. In a case of leapfrogging, it will build only the most modern incarnations of infrastructure: adopting nuclear power fast, building advanced sewer systems in the first place, and incorporating technology in its schools from day one. In a not-so-distant generational quantum leap, literally billions of well-fed, well-read, well-entertained, and well-capitalized young men and women will suddenly enter the matrix of humanity with heightened sense of self-worth. Their contributions will be game-changing...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 2 | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...step is to talk about it, to dream it. If you can’t dream it, you can’t do it,” John F. Ruggiero, a member of the audience, said of Lieberman’s suggestions. Lieberman also discouraged the consumption of corn-fed beef on campus because cows are not evolutionarily designed to eat corn. Cows fall ill when they do eat corn on a regular basis. “I didn’t know that they put the cows through all that semi-torture to obtain it,” said...

Author: By Sami M. Khan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof. Discusses Dysevolution | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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