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Then an unlikely figure entered the fray: Angela Merkel. German Chancellors don't usually weigh in on church matters, she said. But when the Vatican gave "the impression that it could be possible to deny that the Holocaust happened," she felt compelled to demand that the Pope repudiate the idea...
Harvard’s tax returns for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008, detail over $4 million in compensation for top administrators, a figure likely to draw close scrutiny over the coming months, as the University implements deep budget cuts.
Though there is precedent for raising a newly instated president’s compensation, the reported figure is only slightly higher—just over 2 percent (adjusted for inflation)—than the $758,034 former University President Lawrence H. Summers received in his last year in office...
The biannual Tuesday Magazine spends around $4,000 for each issue, and given the recent decline in advertising, generating the figure has become a daunting task.
When times are good, California's diverse economy generates ample tax dollars, especially from income taxes on high earners. But when times are bad, the state's overreliance on income taxes can push the state's finances quickly into the red. Whatever the outcome of Tuesday's vote, Californians are...