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...outsiders were actually insiders; former Chief Financial Officer Andrew S. Fastow allegedly made millions from these partnerships. But the bigger problem was in the accounting gimmick itself. If Enron stock went up more than the bad investments went down, the shell companies could cover the loss and the trick would work. But if both the investments and Enron’s stock price went south, the shells would run out of money—and Enron could either try to bail them out with more stock or admit to its shareholders that the IOU’s were worthless...
Northeastern junior wing Mike Ryan tallied a hat trick against Harvard, with his first and third goals coming on the power play. Ryan’s hat trick marks the second straight game that a Crimson opponent has notched three goals, the other being Colgate’s Kyle Doyle on Saturday night. By game’s end, Ryan had twenty goals on the season...
...hoping to come in here and pop one or two goals,” Ryan said. “But to get a hat trick [at the Beanpot] is something that I thought about as a kid. It hasn’t sunk...
Doyle’s hat trick was the first registered against the Crimson since Gregg Johnson of Boston University potted a trio...
...prodigy Jill Scott, a live album such as Experience: Jill Scott 826+ is an ambitious follow-up to 1999’s acclaimed Who Is Jill Scott? This is particularly true as Experience relegates all the new studio material to the “+” disc, a trick usually reserved for substandard B-side material needed to beef up an ailing compilation...