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Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme continues to rock the financial world. But most hedge funds actually engage in similar - albeit legal - practices in the short run. In the past, these practices helped inflate their gains as well as hedge-fund managers' salaries and bonuses, but recently they helped bring about the failure of many major hedge funds...
...three goals and four assists were contributed by different players. “You want to have that balance within your lines,” Stone said. Using this balance, Harvard tacked on a third goal with four minutes remaining in the final period in a setup similar to that which earned the Crimson its first tally. Instead of Kessler and Ryabkina, though, it was sophomore Amy Uber’s and junior Anna McDonald’s assists that allowed junior Randi Griffin to earn her first goal of the season and increase her team’s lead...
...There are more than passing parallels between Indian news coverage of the Mumbai attacks and American coverage from the rubble of the World Trade Center. In India, the attack is already referred to as 26/11, mirroring America’s 9/11. And the rhetoric as a whole is eerily similar to that used by the American media preceding the invasion of Iraq.The link doesn’t completely hold, though, and that’s because an Indian newspaper has a slightly different notion of what an article should be than an American newspaper does. Reading a piece...
...losses extend the Crimson (4-10-2, 4-5-2) winless streak to 10 games, paralleling last season’s 10-game dry spell during the winter months. “The last couple years, we’ve gone through some sort of slump similar to what we’re experiencing now,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “We’ve just stayed positive and kept working hard in practice...and we came together as a team. We’ve been doing that already and just haven?...
...period a year earlier under the Bush Administration. In Los Angeles, the designer-clothing company American Apparel fired about 1,800 employees in September following an ICE audit of employee records. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., the contract company ABM fired about 1,200 unionized janitors after a similar investigation...