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...when it comes to investing their money. But in light of recent discussions in the Senate, these options may soon become quite taxing. Staff members of the Senate Finance Committee met privately with experts on Monday to discuss how universities—specifically Harvard, Yale, and Stanford—avoid paying taxes on money that is invested in offshore hedge funds, according to an article in Bloomberg News. Depending on the conclusions reached, Harvard and other universities may have to change the way they invest their endowments, but no legislation has been introduced as of yet. According to current federal...
...Arum's research indicates that cases like Tinker encourage students and teachers to believe that kids have far more legal rights than they actually do. Possibly as a result, 82% of public school teachers and 77% of principals practice "defensive teaching" like ignoring misbehavior so they can avoid lawsuits, according to a 2004 Harris poll. "What these cases do," says Negrón , "is have a chilling effect on [the ability of] administrators and teachers to make the decisions they need to make...
Cheat Sheet. What you won't be able to avoid, what you should see--and what you should skip...
...primarily to ... do with finger-pointing and what every country should be doing," she said. "This is helping the secretary-general influence and move the political process forward. ... The question is how do we move to avoid disaster...
...Rice is determined to avoid adding a picture of herself with Syria's foreign minister to Assad's brag-book, at least until he shuts down the pipeline of Sunni militants that runs through Syria into Iraq...