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...thought we had at Busang now appears not to be there." That was the Captain Renault-esque reaction of Bre-X head David Walsh to an independent report calling the once highly-touted Busang, Indonesia lode the biggest scam in the history of mining. In its report released Sunday, Strathcona Mineral Services said that gold from outside sources had been added to the crushed rock core samples that Bre-X had gathered as evidence of the supposed 200 million ounces of gold at Busang. Trading in Bre-X on the Toronto Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and other markets has been suspended...
...battles was often changed by individuals or small groups of men, whose sense of honor, courage, comradeship or simple professional efficiency drove them to extreme effort. Toland's most touching example: a Canadian cavalry officer named Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, who was exhorted to lead a squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking young man, smiled gently as they started forward. 'I know, sir. I know it is a splendid moment. I will try not to fail you.' " As the doomed cavalrymen rode past...
Late in August, the University paid $115,652 for a condominium in the "Strathcona on the Charles" complex at 992 Memorial Drive. The University sold the property a few days later to a faculty member who was moving to the area...
...connection affairs, defended the University's record in connection with the red line. "It was drawn in response to speculative pressure, to make people secure around the edges of Harvard. We have stuck to our guns with the red line," Brewer said, adding that he did not consider the Strathcona purchase a violation of the spirit or the letter of the agreement since it did not involve speculation...
...small cluttered office in Strathcona Hall, one of her few decorative touches was a picture of Napoleon Bonaparte...