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November 26, 2009 , 12:05 AM Illustration by Ross MacDonald. Reflecting on Norman Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving painting, Freedom from Want , a thoughtful essayist recently wrote: “ Freedom from Want … is especially telling, for the scene it depicts...
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The streets of Hamilton were awash with cheers and frantic flag waving as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh continued their tour of the island today. Hundreds lined the royal route to catch a glimpse of the couple as the arrived in the capital by horse-drawn...
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E MC’s outlook Hopkinton-based data storage company EMC Corp. cut its 2009 profit forecast because of a $100 million charge it will take this quarter from a restructuring of international subsidiaries. Madoff mess A bankruptcy court judge shot down a...
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Paul, Minn., broke for the Thanksgiving Day holiday Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the $3.6 billion Tom Petters Ponzi scheme trial. The 52-year-old chairman of Petters Group Worldwide, whose holdings included Sun Country Airlines and Polaroid Corp.,...
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Back in 1988, long before Louis Bacon became the secretive hedge fund billionaire atop Moore Capital, he was walking the trading floor at Shearson Lehman when he spotted Chris Pia, a burly 21-year-old recruit...So Bacon, who had just been given $20 million...
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B ernard Madoff whistleblower Harry Markopolos’ lawyer is demanding the SEC pay Madoff’s victims huge damages for “completely botching” chances to shut the scammer down years ago. “A series of (Madoff investigatory moves) taken by SEC employees . . ....
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Irving Picard, the liquidator for Bernard Madoff's investment-advisory business, asked a judge to approve $22.1 million in fees for him and his team with the law firm Baker & Hostetler, for five months of work. The fees, which include a 10 percent "public...
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Cruse bid $100 and $200 on several paintings and purchased an oil painting for $300. Auctioneer Avi Asher said only 15 percent to 20 percent of the items actually belonged to Madoff's victims, and he couldn't identify those items. Most of the auctions...
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You would expect a rabbi to refer to the holiest of tomes when asked why we should give to those in need...In an episode called "The Stall," Elaine was in the ladies room when she discovered she had no toilet paper. She asked the woman in the adjoining...
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This has been an Annus Horribilis for the Jewish people," the president of Yeshiva University, Richard Joel, remarked last week, conjuring the Latin phrase used to describe a year filled with absolute misery. Queen Elizabeth II famously used the phrase...
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