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...results of the third and largest round of elections for this year's senior...
While substantial in numerical terms,admissions officials said the early actionincrease could have been predicted three years agowhen Princeton, Yale and Stanford went to bindingearly decision programs. That year, Harvard hadits largest jump in early applications and thenumber has grown every year since...
When Citicorp and Travelers in October 1998 closed what was then the largest merger in history, creating a $751 billion financial colossus, a piece of unfinished business kept resurfacing like a bad odor amid the celebrations and predictions of imminent world dominion. This was the so-called Salinas affair, the curious tale of how a resourceful Citibanker named Amy Elliott helped Raul Salinas move some $100 million into untraceable accounts owned by offshore "trusts" that were in turn owned by dummy corporations in the Cayman Islands...
Demands for justice from Holocaust survivors like Lee are steadily mounting. In August, Switzerland's two largest banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to settle wartime claims against them. Since then no fewer than 10 class actions have been filed against European companies that do business in the U.S. Some of these are claims for individual accounts confiscated by banks in Germany and Austria. Others charge that major corporations such as Krupp, Volkswagen and Daimler-Benz profited from slave labor during the wartime years and should pay billions in back wages and other compensation. The issue of Holocaust reparations...
Does that prove that the implants are safe? Not necessarily: the lack of evidence may just mean not enough research has been done, and some link between implants and illness could still turn up. The largest study on that relationship is currently under way and should be published early next year. Plaintiffs' attorneys are hoping it will support their cases, and so are advocacy groups that have been pushing the idea that silicone implants can make you sick...