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...course, we never heard the name Madoff - which has a peculiarly Dickensian ring now - and had no idea how he achieved such fantastic returns over the past 40 years. All we knew was that my wife's entire family had been in the fund for decades and lived well on the returns, which ranged from 15% to 22%. It was all very secretive and tough to get into, which, looking back, was a brilliant strategy to lure suckers. Unlike the usual Ponzi mechanics, the fund even stopped investments into accounts a few years back, at least in our network. There...
...national referendum to try and defeat the program. On our side of the pond, the United States government has criticized the program for supposedly enabling drug abuse. The many successes of this fourteen year-old program, however, have demonstrated that the Swiss policy might actually be a good idea...
...longer asked to take your shoes off at the airport after a leaked al Qaeda statement declares that shoe bombing “was really just a stupid idea...
...University of Maine (2-7) 73-50 yesterday at Lavietes Pavilion with a dominating offensive performance. The game was marked by an all-around team effort, as four players recorded double digits, and senior Emily Tay posted her 1,000th career point. “I had no idea I had scored my 1000th point, so I’m really excited,” Tay said. “It was a really big surprise for me.” The Crimson (6-4) dominated the second half, using a 22-8 run to take a 31-point lead...
...superintendent search subcommittee and Nolan’s frequent ally. “The firm didn’t weight proportionally the number of respondents in each category.” Although Nolan requested more time to study the data presented by the consultants—an idea that initially was supported by some other members—the committee ultimately agreed to pass the recommendations as presented after being urged to do so by Barbara Allen, the district’s human resources director. Allen said that the best course of action would be to follow the set time...