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Harvard’s drop in 2002—which Rapier called a “return to normalcy”—mirrored that of the nation’s 400 biggest nonprofits, which received gifts worth $46.9 billion that year, 1.2 percent less than the 2001 total of $47.5 billion...
...Rapier said the 30 percent drop was deceiving because the 2001 figure had been unusually high...
...interest," says Alexander Edwards of Strategic Vision, an auto consultancy, "but it alone rarely increases sales." Houston stadiums have had some bad karma too. Reliant Energy bought naming rights to the NFL's Houston Texans stadium three years ago. The company, now called CenterPoint Energy, has seen its stock drop 70% since the deal. Remember Enron Field, home of baseball's Houston Astros? The team had to buy back the name from the scandalous energy company. New name: Minute Maid Park...
SURVIVED. KIRK JONES, 40, unemployed clerk who deliberately plunged over Niagara Falls protected by nothing more than the street clothes and parka he was wearing; becoming the first human to survive the drop without a vessel or a safety device; in Niagara Falls, Canada. Jones clambered over a fence and calmly floated on his back toward the 53-m-high Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian side of the cataract, then slipped over the precipice. His only injuries: a few bruised ribs. Jones, who had lost his job after his parents closed the family auto-equipment business, said he was suicidally...
...suggesting that liberals imitate this sort of behavior, but the resilience of the disgraced on the right is instructive. If Burton could be taken seriously after his watermelon episode, are we really sure the Democrats had no choice but to drop Bill Clinton like a political hotpotato rather than use him in the 2000 campaign? Now, Democrats shudder at the Kerry campaign because he’s Northeastern and liberal, as though embracing their base (never mind their fringes) were some kind of a political death sentence. On an individual level, this is the kind of insecurity that makes...