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...reason for the sudden deluge of these crimes, according to Stephen Obie, acting director of enforcement for the CFTC, is that hard economic times are stripping away fraudsters' camouflage. And, of course, Bernard Madoff's stunner, a $50 billion Ponzi that wiped away billions of dollars from thousands of duped investors around the world, has brought global attention to Ponzi capers, encouraging both whistle-blowers and just plain nervous investors to come forward, he said. (See pictures of Madoff...
...junior Kelli Stack’s shorthanded tally may not have been a sudden-death stunner, but it left Harvard heartbroken all the same...
...United States. I’ve never been one for columns that come out admonishing Americans for hating soccer, being so ignorant to this beautiful game, or choosing WWE Monday Night Raw over a good MLS game.Because I love WWE. I know how to do a stone-cold stunner. And the MLS is, for the most part, horrible. But at some point, we, as great lovers of sport, are going to have to get with the program. Put simply, we’re missing out on the greatest party in the world.I had never experienced something like that celebration...
...daydreams seem especially strong in Alaska. This is, after all, his own nation, yet it is stranger than Zanzibar. The pale north light itself is delusive, lingering in the weeks before and after the solstice till midnight and more. The tourist's mind accepts this fifth-grade geography stunner, but his blood and bone do not. They are roiled by restless energy, and they want to order another drink, carry it outside and watch the sun not set. (Whap! Smack! Fierce four-engine mosquitoes alter this plan instantly.) Roadlessness accounts for some of the newcomer's sense of dislocation...
...Arda Turan's injury time dagger during a cloudburst in Basel. Then, in an epic 15 minutes against the Czech Republic, Turkey mounted a comeback that will talked about from Akhiser to Van for as long as a football is being kicked there. Three goals, including another injury-time stunner, this one from the brilliant Nihat Kahveci, absolutely gutted the Czechs. Turkey's suburb central midfielder Tuncay Sanli did it all that night. When not sending passes that freed his wingers to hurl themselves at the Czech goal, he was busy retrieving loose balls for restarts, rushing over with...