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Meyer—who has two children, Justus S. Meyer ’05 and Halsey R. Meyer ’07, at the College—says his job has changed gradually in his 14 years at the management company...
Like other members of the famous "hominid gang," the sharp-eyed fossil hunters employed by paleontology's Leakey family, Justus Erus spends three months a year scouring the dry, bone-rich riverbeds around Lake Turkana, in northern Kenya. It is a scrubby, desolate landscape, where the people are desperately poor and gun-toting young men are a menacing presence. But it is hallowed ground to scientists because of the clues it offers to early human history. Still, even after five years, Erus, a 30-year-old Turkana tribesman, had scored nary a hit--just bits of ancient animal bones...
Senior captain Fran Volpe advanced to the second round of competition, winning his first match, 7-1. Volpe fell in the round of 16, losing to Virginia Tech's Scott Justus in a tight 5-4 match. All the Crimson wrestlers except junior Dawid Rechul lost their wrestleback matches. A wrestleback match occurs after a wrestler's first loss, and still allows for the chance of advancement in the tournament...
Harvard's other captain, Francis Volpe, will also move on to second-round action in the 184-lb division. Volpe, who competed in the NCAAs in 1998, defeated Rider's Shawn Scannell 7-1. He will face Virginia Tech's Scott Justus, who upset the fifth seed on his way to the next round...
...Late last summer a federal grand jury in Florida indicted Frederick Brandau and his company, Financial Federated Title & Trust, for allegedly defrauding thousands of viatical investors across the country in an elaborate, $115 million Ponzi scheme. Brandau's attorney denies the allegations. Just a month ago, two officers of Justus Viatical, a Pompano Beach, Fla., firm, were charged with selling investors $2 million worth of fraudulently obtained life-insurance policies. Their lawyer calls the indictment a farce. And insurance heavyweights like American General and John Hancock Mutual Life have recently fought in the courts to rescind bogus policies...