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...been somewhat of a dictator at BU," said State Sen. Salvatore R. Albano (D-Somerville). "His ultra-right wing, shape-up-or-ship-out philosophy may be one that he came up with after much thought, but it doesn't work in a political arena where there has to be more give and take...
...BU spokesperson Thomas Cashman said the university will ask the court for a rehearing...
...Crimson improved its overall record to 2-1. Earlier in the week, Harvard lost to Brown, 9-6, and trounced King's College (Canada), 55-6. BU, which blanked a team from Novia Scotia, 50-0, fell...
...second half, the Crimson tightened up on defense, holding BU to its only six points of the game...
...type of shady deal was "front-running," in which a broker profits from advance information by trading ahead of a customer's order. A crooked broker might receive an order, for example, to buy 250,000 bu. of soybeans at $5.85 a bu. He could easily execute his own order to buy 50,000 bu. first. Later, when the market reacted to the larger order by pushing prices up to $5.95, the trader could sell his contracts, pocketing $5,000 in profits. A second illicit practice uncovered by the feds was "curb trading," in which brokers conspired to consummate deals...