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...talking, but that adds up to real money, enough to create, in his case, a foundation, the Chais Family Foundation, purportedly worth $175 million before Madoff's arrest on Dec. 11, 2008. The foundation is now kaput, as is Chais' financial sub-empire and as is, for that matter, my retirement. Chais has several lawsuits pending against him, including one by Eric Roth, the Hollywood screenwriter...
...first half. With three seconds left at the end of the period, freshman Harvard goalkeeper Kerry Clark came up big with a clutch save, keeping the game within five points at 8-3. “Going back into the second half, we sought to fight back no matter what the score may have been,” McMahon said. At the beginning of the second half, the Cavaliers came out characteristically strong, scoring a goal right away. Clark recovered with a nice save by blocking an eight-meter shot when a foul was committed in Crimson territory...
...Americans view China’s space program as a threat, there is hardly enough political will necessary to fund such an ambitious proposal on a rapid timescale. The Orion capsules that will replace the space shuttle have already been delayed to 2015. It’s only a matter of time before waning interest spurs Congress to push the timeline back even further. Although President Obama has voiced support for the moon mission as of now, he already proposed delaying Constellation to pay for science education during his campaign...
...This certainly resonates at Harvard, where student ambitions drive them to absurd, unhealthful behavior as a matter of course. One student I know put himself through the gauntlet of a 14-hour-per-day summer lab job pipetting in the hopes of snagging a future Harvard Medical School admissions letter; another suffered an existential crisis because he felt that none of his extracurriculars were sufficiently frivolous enough to show employers he could have fun. The anxiety runs deep—next Wednesday, the Office of Career Services will attempt to soothe those whose goals have been dashed with a panel...
...Democrats should hate - a tax on the poor. (Do Dems stay silent on cigarettes because the government needs the money?) Certainly, in this economic climate, passing sin taxes is more tempting than ever. But the value of a cigarette tax depends on enough people continuing to smoke, and no matter how much revenue streams in, it pales before the estimated $100 billion in health-care costs caused annually by cigarettes...