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...surge in cases of deceit. Far from simply fueling fraud, there's nothing like a nasty bout of recession to flush swindlers out. By digging into their own operations amid the financial squeeze, firms are unearthing historical deception. In 2008, U.K. courts tried individuals for the fraudulent loss of some $450 million at the public and private organizations affected, according to KPMG, three times the amount in 2007. While some of that increase can be put down to wrongdoing prompted by the financial crisis, ongoing fraud uncovered as a result of the recession also played its part. "Companies are restructuring...
...feel comfortable giving advice to a chief executive? Do you know your way around a bank's profit and loss statement? Are you available on weekends for crisis conference calls? Then the financial-services industry...
...What happened on Monday was a tragedy; we should all mourn the loss of 21-year-old Justin Cosby, who died yesterday at Beth Israel Hospital of the gunshot wound he received in the basement of Kirkland’s J entryway. Yet it is quite telling that Sherman received that sort of reply from a police officer. Proper communication is part of protection—and on Monday, the university utterly failed in that regard. Most worrisome, this is indicative of a larger trend in the way the administration has been interacting with the student body lately...
...taken to the DEA," recalled the capo. "I greeted them and they wanted to talk. I only answered that I had no involvement in the Camarena case and I said, 'You said a madman would do it and I am not mad. I am deeply sorry for the loss of your agent...
...years, Susi shared her space at the zoo with another African elephant, a few years her senior, named Alicia. When Alicia died in February 2008, the loss came as a blow, according to the animal-welfare organizations Libera and the Foundation for the Adoption, Sponsorship and Defense of Animals (FAADA). "She's living in 1,000 square meters of concrete, which are not proper conditions for an elephant," says Alejandra Garcia, spokesperson for the Free Susi campaign. "But as long as she had Alicia she was more or less O.K. Now, though, she's apathetic, her trunk hangs...