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Also last week, North Hills Management, a New York City-based $40 million investment fund run by Mark Evan Bloom, was charged by the same agency with "misappropriating for personal use" more than $13 million from its clients' fund. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
Bloom had the pluck to use other people's money to buy a $5.2 million New York City apartment near the mayor's mansion in 2003 (coincidentally in the same building where Madoff's son Andrew lived), which he then flipped for $11.2 million in 2007, the CFTC charge states. In addition, it says Bloom and his wife owned multiple apartments in New York, beach homes in Florida and New Jersey, luxury cars and, of course, boats. It also says Bloom used $1.2 million for interior-design work and an additional $1.8 million for personal expenses...
...issue exploded this week, when the New York Times published a pair of stories tracking Harvard's industry ties. The school might have turned a whole new shade of crimson when its flunking grade from AMSA was made public last summer, but things got even uglier in November when 40 med students rallied on campus to demand that industry and academia make a clean break. The facts, they argued, justify their outrage. Of Harvard's 8,900 professors and lecturers, 1,600 admit that either they or a family member have had some kind of business link to drug companies...
...relations.Woetzel, introduced by Bhabha as “one of America’s premier dancers, and the only one with a degree from the Kennedy School,” was perhaps the manifestation of the spirit behind the ambitious evening. A beloved former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, upon retiring he pursued both public and artistic administration. Woetzel lightheartedly led the gathered congregation in the famous opening passage of George Balanchine’s ballet “Serenade.” Woetzel explained Balanchine had set the ballet, accompanied by Tchaikovsky’s glorious...
...Mercy," 20 mushers and some 150 dogs teamed up to deliver the drugs in under six days, quelling an epidemic that threatened to decimate the town. Balto, the lead dog on the final stretch of the relay, earned national acclaim - and a statue that still stands in New York City's Central Park - for the feat, though many cite musher Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog, Togo, as the the effort's unsung champions...