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...important are whistleblowers in catching investor fraud? According to Stephen Obie, acting director of the division of enforcement at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, over 50% of Ponzi schemes and other frauds he investigates come to him through whistleblowers and investor complaints. The CFTC is the sister agency of the SEC, handling commodities, futures, and foreign currency fraud...
Alcohol can sometimes tear apart homes. But this weekend, it built them. At the Habitat for Humanity beer pong tournament in the PfoHo Bell Tower this Saturday, there was one principle—for every cup you make, God will send Stephen W. Piatelli ’10 to build a house for a poor person. FM paid the $10 entry fee and became one of the 32 teams in the tournie. Righteousness ensued. 9:30 p.m.—Game time. Our first opponents’ training and preparation? “I showered,” says Jessica...
...different thing for those of us with day jobs and the folks who are trying to make a living doing this, for whom I have the greatest respect.”Garnering such respect for street performers in the Boston area has taken many decades of advocacy work. Stephen Baird, one of the most prominent national busker advocates and director of the Community Arts Advocates, has been attempting to increase the prestige of street performing for more than 25 years. After being threatened with arrest while performing in Boston Commons in 1972, Baird recognized the need for legislation to protect...
...first meeting between President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which happened Thursday in Ottawa, covered a wide range of common interests, such as a revival of the North American economy, reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, and the war in Afghanistan. But the unscripted moments of the President's first foreign visit since being elected to the White House - including a declaration of love for Canada and an impromptu visit to an Ottawa farmers' market for a beaver-tail pastry - overshadowed the official agenda...
...Appointed in 1969 as South Korea's first Roman Catholic Cardinal, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 86, was a staunch opponent of authoritarian rule who gave refuge to activists in Seoul's main cathedral during antigovernment protests...