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Given recent history, that would be welcome, albeit surprising, news. In 1992, the endowment returned a disappointing 11.8 percent, lagging behind 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. And in 1991, Harvard's nest egg barely grew...
Given recent history, that would be welcome, albeit surprising, news. In 1992, the endowment returned a disappointing 11.8 percent, lagging behind 71 percent of the nation's colleges and universities. And in 1991, Harvard's nest egg barely grew...
...Lakebergs' time of hard choices began just before Christmas. About 13 weeks into Reitha's pregnancy, the Wheatfield, Indiana, couple learned through an ultrasound test that she was carrying Siamese, or conjoined, twins. Such cases are rare; they happen when a fertilized egg splits incompletely during early cell division. About 40 such sets of twins -- or 1 in 50,000 births -- occur in the U.S. each year. Few of the pairs live long enough for separation to be considered. The Lakebergs' doctors had put the likelihood of one twin surviving at no more than 20% and suggested an abortion...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
Renaldo Duval was luckier -- at least in the beginning. Financing his escape by selling a small house and a plot of land on the edge of the village, he established for himself a nest egg of 3,000 Haitian gourdes (about $100). Sent back in March, he bought a place on another boat. When he was returned a second time, he still had enough cash for yet another try. But to no avail. Broke, Duval wanders aimlessly around the village, destitute and bitter. "It would have been better for them to kill me there than to force me back here...