Word: midnighters
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...Midnight trading. Hush-hush commissions. Corrupt executives. The recent torrent of headlines about mutual-fund scandals provides ample cause for outrage among investors. But if you're wondering how badly the industry's shenanigans have damaged your wallet, the answer is, probably not much. A Stanford University study found that overnight arbitraging in funds cost investors more than $4 billion a year. That's hardly a drop in the bucket, but it was widely diluted in a fund industry with $7 trillion in assets under management...
...company from his Harlem apartment eight years ago, or even Dirt McGirt, a.k.a. Ol' Dirty Bastard, another player on the Roc-A-Fella roster. Dash listens to a fiddle and starts to bop his head; he has settled on the 1980s cult hit Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners, whose Irish lead singer introduces the chorus by belting, "Toora loora toora...
...Harvard affiliates, who logged on to the Asia Center website between noon Tuesday and midnight Wednesday, vied for approximately 500 tickets...
...federal jury convicted Sgt. Harry A. Byrne Jr. in September of beating Garett D. Trombly ’03 after arresting the then-Cabot House resident near the Boston College campus shortly after midnight on Sept. 9, 2001. Byrne was also found guilty of four separate counts of attempted witness tampering in the aftermath of the beating...
...never lost the gift of inspiring his fellow Indians. The phrase he used to describe his nation's independence-it was, he said, India's "tryst with destiny"-still haunts his countrymen with a sense of their potential for greatness; the speech in which he used the phrase, his midnight address to the nation at the moment of independence, is India's equivalent of the Gettysburg Address...