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...with joy, he called his sister and was almost crying; it was an incredible moment.”Much has changed since Yelbi first came to the United States in the hopes of playing basketball professionally.“I was kind of arrogant—I was a recruit for the [basketball] team,” he says.He now says that he hopes to go to medical school and “use the knowledge I get from God to serve people.”“I try to be humble,” Yelbi says...
...Italy in 1934, set the standard in the genre. But the golden age of Ponzi and pyramid schemes didn't arrive for decades. (The two highly similar cons are often conflated, though in Ponzi schemes, a ringleader facilitates the entire enterprise; in a pyramid scheme, rungs of collaborators recruit new investors.) In the boom years of the 1980s and '90s, as traders developed increasingly sophisticated investment vehicles, the cons cropped up with increasing regularity. In 1985, a San Diego currency trader named David Dominelli was revealed to have fleeced more than 1,000 investors to the tune of $80 million...
...Leaf [’10] and Julia [T.] Havard [’11] are the HRDC vets in the cast, so they demonstrate a strong understanding of the process for the other cast members,” he says. Meanwhile, Jeffrey J. Phaneuf ’10, a recruit of Bohrer’s, is one of several cast members appearing in his first dramatic piece at Harvard. Bohrer realized quickly that his original vision of the script was going to evolve based on the actors’ portrayals of his characters. “It was, at first, hard...
...Secretary of Defense Robert Gates writes, "Over the long term, the United States cannot kill or capture its way to victory. Where possible, [military] operations should be subordinated to measures aimed at promoting better governance ... and efforts to address the grievances among the discontented, from whom the terrorists recruit." But so far, the U.S. is failing to do that. With the possibility that Indian threats of retaliation over last month's terror attacks on Mumbai could force Pakistan to move its military to the east from the Afghan border, where it is currently fighting elements of al-Qaeda...
...firm will then recruit prospective candidates and submit a list of semi-finalists to the committee in mid-March, when the list of finalists will be selected. The final decision is scheduled to be made in mid-April...