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Waging battle is an expensive business--and it's getting more so. The U.S. Government Accountability Office's report on Pentagon spending details budget overruns on 72 vehicles and weapons systems owing to expensive redesigns or inefficient project management. As a result, the overall price tag of the military's investments in new technology is up about 50%, to $1.6 trillion. Some of the programs analyzed...
...pursuing the role of director as conductor, and how you work with an ensemble to create an original piece.” The collaborative aspect of the work also necessarily extended to the production of the multimedia presentation. Utilizing a staff of students and alumni and a sizable budget from the VES department, the production attempts to coordinate a complex array of video feeds, sound recordings, and light cues with the live performers. Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05, who wrote her undergraduate thesis on the Americans with Disabilities Act, is producing the show with Miller. Myhrum appreciates that...
...report of the Harvard Management Company, the university received 80 percent of its sponsored research funding from the federal government and 12 percent from foundations. These statistics indicate that public—rather than private—discretion overwhelming dictates the areas toward which Harvard’s research budget is directed. Not only does federal funding often come with strings attached, but it also flows essentially from taxpayers; this makes Harvard theoretically more responsible to the public than if its funding were completely private. Harvard does not even exert control over the majority of its endowment: 85 percent...
...modest $3 million budget reveals, however, a lingering uncertainty remains as to whether this new program will encourage additional students to join or merely lighten the load on those who are already interested in public interest law. If the latter turns out to be true, Kagan would be entirely justified in extending the budget and scope of the program. After all, the effort to encourage scholarship and participation in public interest and public sector law is both necessary and noble...
...Ahern managed to combine his political smarts with the common touch of the retail politician, religiously canvassing his political base in Dublin's Northside, probably because he enjoyed drifting from pub to shop, chewing over the national budget or gassing about Manchester United, his favorite soccer team. He is known, everywhere, simply as Bertie, appearing to be on first-name terms with the entire Irish public...