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...captain Emily Tay said. “But in the locker room, it was very positive, we were ready to go at it again in the second half.”After the break, Harvard settled down and established its 2-1-2 press-break scheme with effectiveness—it turned the ball over just four times after halftime.“We changed nothing [at halftime], absolutely nothing,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “We just reminded them of what they’re supposed to be doing. We just played frenetic...
Last weekend, reports began circulating of Thomsen's departure, just a few days after House Financial Services Committee members ripped her for failing to spot Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme and ignoring nine years of whistle-blower tips about the scam. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...while Thomsen's press-release drafts were still being proofed, the SEC announced on Monday that it had reached an agreement with Madoff over a partial judgment on civil penalties related to his alleged masterminding of the now infamous $50 billion Ponzi scheme, considered the largest in history. A Ponzi is a fraud in which money from new investors is used to pay off previous investors...
...wide plan” announced in January. The plan—which will aim to close the projected $100 to $130 million budgetary shortfall—is an early attempt to begin turning localized feedback from individual units within FAS into a more generalized scheme for cutbacks. “It’s a much more macro thing, as opposed to what’s happening today,” Smith said. “It needs to be guided by what we’re trying to do over the longer term.” Smith wrote...
When Bernard Madoff's huge Ponzi scheme burst, the New York Post reported, in its typical cut-to-the-jugular style, that suicide hotlines were lighting up in Greenwich, Connecticut, home to many of the financial high-rollers snared by the alleged $50 billion scam. But the deadly fallout from it was no joking matter. Only a couple of weeks after Madoff's mischief was revealed, French financier Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet killed himself in his New York City office, apparently distraught by his having lost more than a billion of his clients' (and his own family...