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...Class of 2004 have yet to receive The Senior Class DVD. The discs were slated to be mailed out in September but an update on the website, www.theseniordvd.com, states that “The Senior DVD is in its final production stages and will be delivered to you in mid- to late-November...
There’s John Bechdol, a walk-on offensive lineman who helped anchor the line his senior year. And Adam Jenkins, the tight end who pulled his hamstring mid-season and was supposed to be out the entire year, only to return the following week and play through the pain...
...mystery of Yasser Arafat's life seemed unsolved at the time of his death: How much money did he have, and where is it? In the mid-1990s, Arafat controlled a financial empire worth at least $3 billion. By the time of his death, he was down to his last $1 billion, according to Israeli intelligence estimates. Palestinian leaders believe his widow Suha would like to make off with what is left of his cash, a suspicion deepened by her charges last week that Arafat's successors were "trying to bury [him] alive...
...loan look like an equity infusion, a charge the bank denies. The refinancing was even more controversial: Sala admitted to skimming off a "commission" via the offshore company he'd set up to handle it. Bank of America says it didn't know that at the time. By mid-2003, such peculiar transactions had become too much for some big investors. When Bank of America was preparing a U.S. "road show" in July 2003 to present Parmalat's plans for a new issue, several institutional investors complained that the company had promised just three months earlier that it wouldn...
...most sophisticated investors and its most reputable auditors. How did they miss the signals that the company was cheating? It's not an academic question: if Parmalat had gone bust in 1995, when it could no longer fill all its funding needs in Italy, it would have been a mid-sized Italian failure with debts of about €560 million. Instead, Parmalat took its warped finances global. By the time of the collapse eight years later, it owed its investors €14 billion. Bank of America alone, beginning in 1997, arranged $1.7 billion in financing through bonds and private placements...