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Question: But maybe â just maybe â this one game  this one Saturday afternoon at Madison Square Garden  is a hint that thereâs life yet in the old bear  in the St. Johnâs basketball team  which had no business sharing a court with the fourth-ranked Duke Blue Devils yet somehow walked off that court with an 81-77 victory.
âIâm happy for the guys â  St. Johnâs coach Chris Mullin  said. âThey needed it more than anything.â
It is what this program needed  too  as much as anything. As the losses mounted  the helplessness did too. Nobody expected  Mullin âs return to  his  Utopia Parkway kingdom to be a magic elixir  but nobody figured on 0-11 in the Big East in Year 3  either. It has been hard for  Mullin âs guys  yes  but it has been just as hard for the faithful to keep their faith.
âThe month of January was rough for us â forward Tariq Owens said. âBut  Coach  never stopped preaching to us and we never left the gym and finally it paid off.â
Itâs one game  yes. Two years ago   St. Johnâs  hammered a Syracuse team bound for the Final Four and  it  proved merely an outlier. Maybe this will be the same thing.
Or maybe it wonât be. If you care about St. Johnâs  and about college basketball in this city  it really is the only way to root.

Answer: St. John


Question: Ever since early 2016 , when the Republican Party began to fussily resettle itself behind Donald Trump , Mitt Romney has been an intermittent oppositional figure , distinct from his party in both point of view and style . 
The conservative movement has grown smirking , clannish , quarrelsome ; Romney has been formal , chiding , and pained . 
After Trump won the election , that November , Romney met with Trump in the hope of securing for himself the position of Secretary of State . 
Yet this summer , after a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville turned deadly , Romney professed deeper anxieties . 
For half a century , Romney and his family have existed close to the center of the Republican Party . 
Now -- just six years removed from being his party 's Presidential nominee , but with no distinct Romneyist camp in Washington and no obvious constituency to summon -- it is n't obvious that Romney fits in at all . 
Last week , the Utah senator Orrin Hatch announced that he would be retiring at the end of his term this year , and immediately Romney 's allies suggested that he would run for the seat ; the common wisdom was that his election would be all but assured . 
-LRB- Romney , a man of many residences , built his political career in Massachusetts , but he went to college in Utah , and helped to save the Salt Lake City Olympics from ruin in 2002 ; he is the most recognizable Mormon in the world , and he would be running in a state whose Republican Party is defined by its relationship to the L.D.S. Church . -RRB- 
Romney 's candidacy is still unannounced , and its most important position -- what line the candidate takes on the President -- is not yet obvious . 
"This thing is still developing ," one of Romney 's longtime advisers told me last week . 
But already the most romantic vision of Romney -- that he might arrive in Washington as the de-facto leader of an anti-Trump faction -- seems unlikely . 
"I 've heard some relatively simplistic assessments that he is going to be the voice of the Never Trump movement ," a senior adviser to Romney 's Presidential campaign said last week . 
Romney is a very pragmatic politician , too . 
Romney himself has made no sign of wanting to be part of such a faction , even if it existed . 
One of his advisers reminded me last week that Romney took the idea of being Trump 's Secretary of State seriously , and believed that Trump 's interest in him was entirely sincere . 
And , a month after his appalled reaction to Charlottesville , Romney tweeted praise for Trump 's speech before the U.N. General Assembly . 
Romney 's potential for tragedy and heroism both spring from the same source : the depth of his feeling for a version of America that may exist only in his mind , a place where the trees in Michigan are exactly the right height . 
Romney 's return to Utah has some elements of a homecoming ; it is also , more simply , a move to accommodating political terrain . 
Utah is a conservative state whose politics are moving toward Romney , rather than away . 
Modern Utah , the place of the salvaged Salt Lake Olympics , exists in the Romney image .

Answer: Mitt Romney


Question: The peer-to-peer lender LendingClub  is on the cusp of being investigated by the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission  and it is in emergency talks to coax more buyers onto its platform to shore up the business.
 LendingClub  made the disclosures in a regulatory filing on Monday.  It  follows the shock ousting of  LendingClub  founder and CEO Renaud Laplanche last week after an internal review. The stock crashed 26% on the day and is down over 50% since then.
The board cited issues with "data integrity and contract approval monitoring and review processes" for Laplanche's exit  as well as issues surrounding an apparent financial conflict of interest in an investment Laplanche made in a company doing business with  LendingClub .
The forced exit of Laplanche has sent  LendingClub  into a full-blown crisis that threatens the very core of  its  business.
UPDATE: Since  publication LendingClub  has provided BI with the following statement:
 LendingClub  was founded in 2007 and is a peer-to-peer lender; consumers can take out loans of up to $40 000 (Â£27 654)  supplied by a third party  that are then packaged up and sold to institutional investors who want to receive the stream of interest payments in return. It matches lenders with investors  a little like UK companies such as Zopa.
 LendingClub  says:
But Laplanche also failed to disclose his personal interest in  a fund that LendingClub was considering investing in   and The Journal claims he had invested millions in  that fund  so it could buy LendingClub's loans  effectively to boost demand.
The vehicle  which Bloomberg said was Cirrix Capital  bought $114.5 million worth of  LendingClub  loans in the first quarter of the year  according to Monday's filing.  LendingClub  director John Mack and Laplanche are all investors in Cirrix  according to Bloomberg. Cirrix is now helping Lending Club with emergency funding.
 LendingClub  claims to take no credit risk itself  but  it  clearly has some exposure to the risk if  it  is investing in a fund that is buying  its  loans. Discussing  LendingClub 's investment in the vehicle that bought the loans   LendingClub  says  it  "determined none of these events were required to be recognized or disclosed."
As a result of the whole fiasco   LendingClub  has received a grand jury subpoena from the US Department of Justice and has been contacted by the SEC   it  said in a filing on Monday.  The company  says "no assurance can be given as to the timing or outcome of these matters. "
LendingClub  also warns that  it  may face legal proceedings over the whole thing  but  it  says  it  doesn't think any liabilities from an eventual judgment will have a "material effect on  its  financial condition."
 LendingClub  is already facing two class-action lawsuits in the US  both filed since the start of the year.
One  filed in California  accuses  the company  of "making materially false and misleading statements in the registration statement and prospectus issued in connection with the IPO regarding  among other things  the company's business model  compliance with regulatory matters  and their impact on  the company 's business  operations  and future results."
Another  lodged in New York  claims people "received loans  through  the company 's platform  that exceeded states' usury limits in violation of state usury and consumer protection laws."
' The company  may need to use  its  own funds to purchase  these loans'

Answer:
LendingClub