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Melvyn I. Weiss’s plea is an acknowledgment of his role in a scheme to make hidden side payments to plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits.
The economic downturn is seeping into new parts of the country, to communities that seemed insulated only months ago.
Now is a good time to ask if New York taxpayers will be left holding the bag — a rather expensive bag, worth tens of millions of dollars, in the aftermath of the collapse of Bear Sterns.
Belmont came tantalizingly close to stunning second-seeded Duke, carving out a place in N.C.A.A. tournament history as “the team that almost did it.”
What happens when managers conclude that desperate measures are needed, which will permanently damage the shareholders but provide hope for survival of the enterprise?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 2008, covering March 21, 2008.
Alan Jackson
Jack Johnson
Janet
Flogging Molly
The Black Crowes
2008Denis Cosgrove, English-American geographer and academic (born 1948)[†]
Denis Edmund Cosgrove was a British cultural geographer. He taught at Oxford Polytechnic, Loughborough University, Royal Holloway, University of London, where he rose to become dean of the graduate school, and finally at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1998, he received the prestigious Back Award from the Royal Geographical Society.
2008Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, Chilean architect and academic (born 1931)[†]
Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente was a Chilean architect and painter. After finishing his studies of architecture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Jullian left his country for Europe, with the declared desire to work with the Swiss architect Le Corbusier.
2008John List, American murderer (born 1925)[†]
John Emil List was an American mass murderer and long-time fugitive. On November 9, 1971, he killed his wife, mother, and three children at their home in Westfield, New Jersey, and then disappeared. He had planned the murders so meticulously that nearly a month passed before anyone suspected that anything was amiss.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]