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...extremely unlikely" the SEC will be held liable, Rickards says...
...broad coalition of students, student groups, and alumni, has taken great steps in the recent months to actualize this long-desired development for student life. It has drawn up building plans with a local architect, incorporated a non-profit foundation to oversee the project’s development, held high-level meetings with the administration, and convened a Campaign Advisory Council of student groups and a Board of Advisors of faculty and alumni. At the same time, thanks to significant negotiations, the SCCC on the verge of finalizing a deal for the purchase of 45 Mt. Auburn St., an extraordinarily...
...even consulted third parties, such as the Depository Trust Company (DTC, a special-purpose bank used by securities firms), to verify trades, the scandal would have been uncovered. For example, a January 2005 statement for a Madoff feeder-fund account indicated it held $2.5 billion of S&P 100 equities on Jan. 31, 2005. However, DTC records show Madoff held less than $18 million worth of S&P 100 equities in his DTC account...
...British minister once gave assurances to Libya that neither Prime Minister Gordon Brown nor his Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, "would want Mr. Megrahi to pass away in prison." This revelation, embedded in one of the newly released minutes of a meeting between Scottish and Libyan officials that was held in Glasgow in March 2009, has been confirmed by Miliband. "We did not want [al-Megrahi] to die in prison. No, we weren't seeking his death in prison. We have been absolutely clear," he told the BBC. (See pictures of Lockerbie 20 years...
According to a Tehran resident with a contact at the shuttered prison, four converted warehouses each held approximately a thousand prisoners, with individual partitions packed to the brim with men, many of whom were forced to stand up because of the lack of room; food and water were also in tight supply, according to the source. On a recent day, the road leading up to Kahrizak was closed, and there seemed to be no activity in the neighborhood, which is dotted with green fields...