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Fund managers' compensation is based on the percentage the endowment grew in the previous year. In 1999, Harvard made only 12.2 percent, compared to 20.5 percent in 1998. Over the past five years, Harvard has averaged a 20.1 percent return on its endowment...
Since Harvard's endowment earned 7 percent less than the goal set by its managers, Meyer's compensation will drop this year, to $1.6 million...
...medical condition. According to a study in the current issue of the medical journal the Lancet, children with ADHD may have a lower-than-normal amount of the chemical dopamine, which is associated with concentration and motivation. ADHD children, says the report, have an average of 70 percent more dopamine transporters in their brains than other children - evidence, researchers think, that these brains developed the extra transporters in a vain effort to compensate for a lack of dopamine. Couple that finding with a report earlier this week from National Institute of Mental Health that said the disorder is most effectively...
Front-runners, as ever, are the Communists, who look set to remain the largest bloc in the legislature with up to 25 percent of the vote. But given that Sunday's vote is a warm-up for next July's presidential election, the more interesting battle is for second place. When former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov and Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov joined forces earlier this year to create the Fatherland-All Russia bloc, they looked like an unbeatable combination to win both the Duma and the presidency. But public enthusiasm for the war in Chechnya has propelled neophyte prime minister...
...When Yeltsin named Putin as his successor in August, the former KGB officer had a popularity rating of less than 1 percent. Now, Russian pollsters are saying, he's a shoo-in for next year's presidential election. But the Chechnya war that propelled him to the top could also drag him down. Russian public support for the campaign is premised on the fact of Russia's suffering minimal casualties. A videotape to back Western news reports of more than 100 Russian soldiers lying in the wreckage of a tank column ambushed in Grozny could seriously affect his poll ratings...