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Harvard swept all four opponents in the Harvard Invitational. The Crimson ended the Invitational on a five game winning streak, beating non-league opponents Vermont and Manhattan twice. Harvard also proved victorious in an Ancient Eight match-up, edging Dartmouth...
...HEAR U.S. PROSECUTORS TELL IT, the stunts that Japan's Daiwa Bank used to conceal the nefarious conduct of its Manhattan office might have come from The Sting. The end result, however, was more akin to the farcical Dumb and Dumber. Among the flagrant ruses employed by Daiwa, prosecutors said, was disguising a downtown trading floor as a nondescript storage room during audits by Federal Reserve regulators. But no sooner had the Feds left than the traders reappeared--led by Toshihide Iguchi. It was his dual role as chief bond trader and bookkeeper that ultimately brought the bank to grief...
...back some of the Treasury securities that he had illicitly sold to conceal his losses. The same hubris permeated skull sessions that allegedly took place when Iguchi met with a Daiwa managing director from Osaka and the head of the New York branch on July 28 and 29 in Manhattan's Park Lane Hotel. The indictment said the managing director insisted that the cover-up continue until Daiwa could report its financial results for the six months ending Sept...
...went for naught after Daiwa reported Iguchi's activities to Japanese regulators on Aug. 8 and finally told Washington on Sept. 15. "This investigation is continuing," a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan acknowledged last week. Wall Street watchers don't doubt it. Their suspicion: Daiwa's Keystone cover-up that failed may have more reels full of capers...
Robert DeNiro also was charged with assault after grabbing the hair of Joseph Ligier, who DeNiro claims was verbally abusive outside a Manhattan bar last month. When Ligier offered to drop the charges for $300,000, DeNiro's lawyers contacted the office of the Manhattan district attorney, which set up a sting that could result in extortion charges against the cameraman...