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Despite having a young squad, the women’s fencing unit rose to the occasion to help lift the Crimson to its fifth-place finish. As a team, the Crimson finished with 116 victories, only falling short to national champion Penn State (195), Notre Dame (182), Ohio State (166), and Columbia...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WEB UPDATE: Crimson Captures Fifith at NCAAs | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...women’s unit was led by freshmen Noam Mills and Caroline Vloka, both of whom finished second overall in their respective events. Vloka, the No. 2 seed in the women’s sabre, posted a 20-3 record and amassed 105 touches in the preliminary rounds, but lost 15-4 in the final...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WEB UPDATE: Crimson Captures Fifith at NCAAs | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...suggests that the Obama Administration is likely to approve billions in loans for GM and Chrysler. The Administration's automotive task force appears to have ruled out forcing GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. That's one reason GM has pushed back the date of the company's annual meeting unit to August from June. Once it gets final approval of $21.6 billion in new federal loans, the company can have a future to talk about. GM isn't planning anything fancy for the meeting - it will be held in Detroit to save travel costs. "The board felt they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit Tries Muscle: The Return of the Camaro | 3/21/2009 | See Source »

...rare interview, former CEO Greenberg, who is suing AIG and being sued by the company over financial-management issues, tells TIME that once the company lost its top credit rating, AIG FP should have stopped writing swaps and hedged, or reinsured, its existing ones. But Cassano's unit doubled down after the spring of 2005, writing more and more subprime-linked swaps as the ratings plunged, which made the possible need for collateral enormous in the event its debt was downgraded. The downgrades occurred in 2008. "Of course they were going to run out of money," says Greenberg. He adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How AIG Became Too Big to Fail | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...even bigger bonuses paid out in past years to the masterminds of the AIG FP mess who no longer happen to work there. Slightly less so, in fact: the remaining AIG FP employees are being paid essentially to work themselves out of jobs by winding down all the unit's contracts. It's an awkward situation that means at least some of them probably would have gotten retention pay even in bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upside of Anger | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

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