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...trustworthy fund managers had the fiduciary decency to tell us that Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC was controlling our fates we may have had a shot at changing things: we could have done our own research - the research our fund managers were supposed to be doing for us, right? But, of course, they didn't. Why? The money. It was just too good to let us, the simple-minded investors, foolish enough to think this was all on the up and up, know too much, to raise concern, to cause trouble with perfectly legal, unregistered, multibillion-dollar funds that...
...Mayer had the daily low round in Round 1, shooting 70 on the par-70 course. But in Round 2, the Winter Park, Fla. native slipped a little, shooting 78 to finish at +8, good for second. Though he took first, Christensen trailed after Round 1, having shot two over in the first round of play. In Round 2’s competition, Christensen dropped to five over, but nobody shot par or better in Round 2, so Christensen was able to move atop the pack at +7. Junior Greg Shuman finished in a four-way tie for third, shooting...
...control in the games on Sunday. “This time of year teams change very quickly,” Farrar said.BROWN 11, HARVARD 10In the team’s final home game of the season, the Crimson stumbled out of the gate. Two exclusions and a Brown penalty shot provided the basis for an early 4-0 deficit. But Harvard refused to let the second match of the day go the way of the first and quickly turned the tide around.“We did a great job of digging ourselves out of that hole...
Bomb scares: two words that Northern Ireland had long consigned to the linguistic trashcan. But this week, bouts of public violence - both real and threatened - made a foreboding return to news bulletins and everyday conversations in the province. On April 1, two men were shot in the legs in so-called "punishment attacks" in Belfast and Londonderry. The day before, petrol bombs were thrown at a historic Orange hall in Belfast while a meeting of the Protestant Orangemen was taking place inside (nobody was injured). And security alerts at schools, leisure centers and gas stations - all hoaxes so far - continue...
...carried out bomb attacks and shootings on Catholic civilians and republican terrorists during the Troubles - could spell disaster for Northern Ireland. A return to the tit-for-tat killings of the past would almost certainly spell the end of the power-sharing government that the dissidents oppose. (Read: "Policeman Shot Dead in Northern Ireland...