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...authorities ruled that H.J. Meyers had engaged in fraudulent and unethical practices. They revoked the broker-dealer registrations of the firm, Villa and four of his associates. Shortly before the crackdown, H.J. Meyers closed its doors, and in November 1998 Villa packed up and headed for Florida and its generous homestead exemption. He left behind a countryside littered with investors who had lost money, including some whose retirement savings had disappeared. Some of the unlucky H.J. Meyers clients took their cases to arbitration, won awards and filed claims in Villa's bankruptcy case...
...psych explanation is that this comes from his youth. A child of divorce, Hanks moved constantly as a boy. But he seems loath to talk about his personal motivations, and when I suggest this Hanks-as-Odysseus thesis, he responds--in the most generous, droll, affable, Hanksian way--that I'm full of crap. "They each have their voyages, but I guess I don't see that [similarity]. The danger of getting home was inherent in Jim Lovell's choice to go to the moon. I guess Captain Miller [fits], but I don't think he ever thought...
...Maybe the boom-box behemoths are feeling generous after putting free-music clearinghouse mp3.com on the legal ropes Wednesday. But there's another good reason for these guys to play nice with the feds. "This is a time when there are not only a lot of big corporate mergers, but also a reemergence of an aggressive application of antitrust law in Washington," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "This case, just like Microsoft, probably wouldn't have been brought five years ago." And with Time Warner not only looking to merge its music division with that of EMI but also...
Fitzsimmons credited the College's generous financial aid program and successful pre-frosh weekend as factors in Harvard's impressive yield, which is consistently the highest of the nation's selective colleges...
...kids were starting college, and Harvard does not have a generous tuition benefit," Davis says...