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...Monday, a judge declined a request by prosecutors to jail Bernard Madoff, saying the former investment adviser who is accused of bilking $50 billion from clients did not pose a flight risk. Prosecutors made the request last week after it was discovered that Madoff had sent over a million dollars in jewelry to relatives in the past few weeks. Investigators also revealed that Madoff had $173 million in signed checks sitting in his office drawer at the time of his arrest. Prosecutors say they will appeal the ruling...
...first in Washington and then in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, which is handling the Madoff case. TIME's Stephen Gandel asked Barkow about Monday's ruling and why most white-collar criminals get to stay out of prison on bail while other accused people are often sent right to the slammer. (See the top 10 scandals...
...hours of the ground invasion, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have managed to find and blow up dozens of launching sites and rocket factories. As they advanced, troops encountered booby-trapped houses and a maze of tunnels, which the Israelis cleared using little robots with camera eyes that were sent down the shafts to ferret out hiding militants. The troops' progress is slow and methodical, but this way casualties are kept low. The IDF says it has lost only 10 soldiers since the fighting began, four of those to "friendly fire...
...forms.On Oct. 29—“D-Day,” as Ganong calls it—he and Yelbi laid out the 12 applications on the floor of his Adams dorm room and painstakingly checked them for factual inaccuracies. The next day, the applications were sent out, and Yelbi began the long wait for responses. OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIESWith one hurdle temporarily surmounted, Yelbi is still faced the brutal difficulties of everyday life as a young, homeless student bracing for a rapidly approaching winter season.Yelbi’s daily routine requires that he negotiate the varied network...
...Neill’s rush allowed the puck to slip over the line in a commotion that knocked down Riley in the process.This goal only served to spark Harvard’s frustration. The extracurriculars began with some shoving in front of Yale’s net that sent junior forward Doug Rogers and Yale’s Mark Arcobello to the locker room with 10-minute game-misconduct penalties at 16:50.Less than three minutes later, junior Chad Morin would also take a 10-minute misconduct for a shoving match in front of the Crimson’s bench...