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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fund managers' compensation is based on the percentage the endowment grew in the previous year. In 1999, Harvard made only 12.2 percent, compared to 20.5 percent in 1998. Over the past five years, Harvard has averaged a 20.1 percent return on its endowment...
Council Vice President Kamil E. Redmond '00 said she was "fairly confident" the council could raise $10,000 from corporations and other student groups to fund Springfest...
...fairness, if we were Russia, we'd be scared too. In recent years, the West has done precious little to reassure this former adversary. The International Monetary Fund has given Russia billions of dollars in loans but failed to create a stable economy. The U.S. Senate has resolved to create an ICBM protective shield once it becomes technologically feasible. Such a shield would allow the United States to launch a nuclear strike with impunity, a prospect that is understandably frightening to the Russians, not to mention Dartboard...
...Ballmer '77 (then a turkey shoot victim; now a Microsoft billionaire) decided to start a Crimson magazine. They named it What Is To Be Done, a shout out to communism, a form of socio-political organization, that Mr. Cramer liked a lot. We hear he runs his hedge fund like a good Leninist. Once upon a time, in the late 1990s, the magazine, renamed Fifteen Minutes (that's the written-out form of F.M.), experimented with the esoteric. We've prepared a historically faithful selection of stories from a ratty old issue we found in the office...
Lewis said the Trust may fund these women-focused events, but monies would come from the College's budget and not take cash from the Trust's student group grant fund...