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After Scandal Rocks Penn State, Another College Faces Abuse Allegations

Posted 01.14.2012

After Penn State's horrific abuse scandal came to light last week, another college has come clean about an abuse allegation on their campus. On Sa...

Citadel Leaders Who Covered Up Child Sex Abuse Charges Must Stand Down

Christine Pelosi | Posted 01.13.2012

Christine Pelosi

By their own admission, we know that Citadel's leaders' decision to keep child sex abuse charges involving their alum and employee from police was a moral failure to "duty honor country."

Too Big To Fail, Or Too Trifling For Oversight?

New York Times | Posted 08.12.2011

It is not very often that business people head to Washington to explain how unimportant they are. But over the last several months, executives from...

Insider Trading Probe Offers New Chance to Curb Hedge Fund Power

David Callahan | Posted 05.25.2011

David Callahan

It is never good to hear that large financial players may have broken the law, and the huge insider trading investigation unfolding on Wall Street is deeply troubling. But the upside to the probe is that it offers a chance to curb the outsized power of hedge funds.

This is Iraq (But Not the One You've Seen Before)

Victoria Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Victoria Fine

Iraqi Kurdistan is full of the growing pains and remarkable opportunities of a society that is moving on from violence and redefining a national and regional identity. This is the story we are here to tell.

Tea, Green: Five Experts Serve Up Their Favorite Eco-Friendly Brews

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Avital Binshtock

The tea industry has an ugly history of deforesting, damaging biodiversity, and using pesticides. To promote more enlightened sipping, we asked five experts to name their preferred brew.

Author And Citadel Graduate Pat Conroy Sent Shannon Faulkner To College (VIDEO)

abcnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Shannon Faulkner, the first woman to be admitted to the Citadel Military College, told Good Morning America today that her education was funded by aut...

Citadel Broadcasting Bankruptcy: Radio Company Preps For Chapter 11

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Radio station owner Citadel Broadcasting is preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection by year-end in a move to lessen its debt burden, ac...

Chicago Hedge Fund Reeling

The New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 05.25.2011

Kenneth C. Griffin was one of those Wall Street whiz kids. As a teenager, he traded out of his dorm room at Harvard. In his 20s, he opened his own hed...

Hedge Funds Poach Talent From Weakened Investment Banks Like Bear Stearns

DealBook | Posted 05.25.2011

Hedge funds are on a hiring binge, taking advantage of cutbacks at investment banks. Star traders, senior executives and whole teams have been recruit...

Why Citadel Pounced On Wounded E*Trade

Wall Street Journal | SUSANNE CRAIG, GREGORY ZUCKERMAN, MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG | Posted 05.25.2011

On Monday, Nov. 12, Kenneth Griffin was boarding a plane to New York when he received an urgent call from Joe Russell, a lieutenant at Mr. Griffin's b...

E*Trade Gets Help From Citadel

Wall Street Journal | SUSANNE CRAIG, MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG and DENNIS K. BERMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

E*Trade Financial Corp., which is ensnared in the mortgage crisis, said it is getting a $2.55 billion cash infusion from Citadel Investment Group, in ...