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...video showed a Marine reacting to the question of how he would respond to orders to disarm Americans. Marines, he said, are authorized to disobey laws they believe are wrong. Another clip featured ABC-TV's John Stoessel, who said the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cannot cite statistics that prove measures like waiting periods and the Brady Bill have reduced accidental shooting deaths. Another clip featured a woman who saw her parents die in the infamous 1991 mass killings in a Killeen, Texas cafeteria. She'd left her gun in the car, as the legislature had mandated...
Those bullish on global economic recovery have their data points: the steady upward climb of world stock markets, three straight months of Chinese manufacturing expansion, the weak dollar. But there are still plenty of skeptics of a rapid and robust turnaround, with their own set of numbers to cite: continued bleeding of private-sector jobs in the U.S. and Europe, more record lows in new home construction, and, er, the weak dollar. (Watch TIME's video of Peter Schiff trash-talking the markets...
...study is a follow-up to a similar one conducted in 1995. For the new report, Boyd and his Harvard colleagues used a proprietary database called Osiris, which updates its financial data daily, to cull information on the major shareholders of tobacco-related equities. The researchers cite New Jersey-based insurer Prudential Financial as a typical example of what they discovered. Prudential, which sells both life and long-term-disability insurance, owned about $264 million in the stocks of Reynolds American, which makes Camel cigarettes, and Philip Morris International, which manufactures the Marlboro brand. (Watch TIME's video "Au Revoir...
...current use gifts and unrestricted funds to sustain Harvard’s core activities in the short-term.“We felt that it is very important to have resources to make immediate interventions that will have good outcomes in the long-term,” Faust says, citing the need for greater flexibility in diverting funds. Unrestricted funds can be used at the discretion of University leaders, and current use gifts can be spent immediately—unlike most endowment funds, which are designated for a specific purpose and have limits on yearly spending.Even more than other donations...
...While the final scale and impact of job reductions remain to be seen, concerns are growing among students, who cite on-campus jobs as a critical means of fulfilling student contribution requirements for tuition...