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Take Stephen Walsh and Paul Greenwood, operators of Westridge Capital Management's $1.3 billion in assets, who last week were charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with allegedly "misappropriating" at least $553 million either for personal expenses or to cover trading losses. The CFTC is the sister agency of the Securities and Exchange Commission and covers fraud in the commodities, futures and foreign-exchange markets. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
Elle Fanning, the star of Phoebe in Wonderland, turns 11 this April. She made her debut at two, playing a younger version of her sister Dakota's character in I Am Sam, and already has 27 movie and television credits. To be so experienced as a child actor can translate on screen to a preternatural poise that, while admirably skilled, tends to creep out us mere mortals. But in her first real starring role as a troubled, Alice in Wonderland-obsessed 9-year-old, Fanning gives the kind of heartbreaking performance that makes you want to yank...
...talked and talked away. I didn’t begrudge him his negotiating if rice prices were as crummy as he said. But was this my grand re-entry? Is this how things would be from here on out—me, cowering in the corner like a nun? Sister Winnie of the Heartless and Frumpy?Then I realized what I could do for the rest of my life—open a dress shop for lasses in mourning—and call it, what, The Gloomy Loom of Doom?“And that?...
...contacted the Texas Department of Insurance, identifying myself as both the sister of an aggrieved policyholder and a journalist. Officials there suggested that Pat file a complaint against the company. Each year the department receives as many as 11,000 complaints and manages to get $12 million to $13 million back for consumers, Audrey Selden, the department's consumer-protection chief, told me. "It is important to complain...
...goals on the season.Although McCarthy missed out on the reception, as well as the California heritage, she quickly found her place in the group.Water polo represents a “family trait” for all five Americans, as each has either a father or an older sister passing on the genes.Conversely, Barton-Kettleborough, named Northern Division Rookie of the Week on Feb. 24, comes to Harvard from Manchester, England, and decided to take up the sport after seeing it played for the first time at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in her home city.The teammates are also quite similar...