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Over the course of this academic year, at least four students are believed to have taken their own lives, half of them undergraduates. This year, Harvard lost students Hailei Ge, Annelle Fitzpatrick '00, David L. Okrent '99 and Frank P. Minore...
...Hailei Ge...
...first-year graduate student studying computer science, Ge died in November after falling four stories from the Gordon McKay Library in Pierce Hall on Oxford Street. He had only been at Harvard for two months...
...three shares for every one that they buy--the highest level in a decade, says Bob Gabele, who tracks such activity for CDA/InvestNet. "The selling has been broad and active for several quarters," Gabele says. "It really does look like a trend." Even at such blue-chip companies as GE and Procter & Gamble, where insiders rarely sell, they've been dumping stock. There are many reasons for an executive to sell: new house, college tuition, balancing his or her portfolio. Still, most have some flexibility, and hard-core selling is never a good sign...
Small wonder, then, that the industry zoomed from about 10 companies in 1994 to some 50 participants last year. Giants such as GE Capital, Norwest Financial and Ford's Associates First Capital came barreling in alongside lesser-known newcomers. But the overcrowded field swiftly became unforgiving. For example, the market value of Mercury Finance, a sub-prime auto lender in Lake Forest, Ill., collapsed from $2.2 billion to $130 million last year after the company disclosed that it had overstated profits...