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Lewis' problems came to a head this summer. Bank of America had struck a deal with the SEC to pay $33 million to end an investigation into whether some unnamed Bank of America executives had mislead shareholders when it purchased Merrill. The SEC alleges that in early December, on the eve of a vote to approve the Merrill deal, Bank of America executives told shareholders that no bonuses would be paid to Merrill executives prior to the acquisition. In fact, Bank of America had agreed more than a month earlier to approve the payment of more than $5 billion...
Early in the morning on Sept. 29, an earthquake deep under the Pacific caused a massive tsunami that devastated the islands of Samoa and American Samoa, killing 111 people, ravaging villages and flattening homes. The earthquake struck at 6:48 a.m. and measured 8.3 on the Richter scale. By 7:04 a.m., an emergency alert went out from the Tsunami Warning System, a global network of sensors monitored by scientists. Less than 10 minutes later, the tsunami, with waves measuring nearly 15 ft. high, hit land...
...Harvard struck blood first in the 25th minute when Kutler finished a play that left fans impressed. After sophomore Melanie Baskind crossed the ball into the box, junior Katherine Sheeleigh tipped it behind her to Cutler, who sent the ball through the hands of Holy Cross goalie Mary Ferketic...
...blasts from Baird and senior Megan MacGregor. From there, the two teams kept it close and frequently exchanged the lead. Dartmouth emerged on top at 18-16 and did not look back from there. Appropriately, the Big Green completed the sweep off of one final Baird kill that struck a Harvard defender and bounced wildly out-of-bounds...
...like the man ... He always struck me as a very genuine sort of guy, a very courteous and a very old-fashioned person." - Geoff Andrew, the National Film Theatre's programmer, who has met and interviewed Polanski many times. The Guardian, July...