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...There were times when he would make my children kiss his hand like he was the Godfather. He started to think he was Don Corleone." - Katherine Pellicano, on her husband's Mafia obsession (Vanity Fair, June...
...negatively affected by the current financial crisis—I’m glad we decided we were not expert enough to risk gambling with student money. When University President Drew G. Faust announced that the value of our endowment had dropped precipitously by 22 percent since its June 30 estimate of $36.9 billion, the reality of the crisis hit home. Given that approximately one-third of the University’s operating budget is derived from the payout of the annual interest generated from the endowment and that tuition and donation income are expected to be affected as well...
Harvard is facing unprecedented losses to its endowment right now, which has fallen off 22 percent since June and may see further capital deterioration. In the face of such sobering performance, cutbacks are not ideal but are certainly necessary. In this trying time, reductions must be evenly and fairly distributed across all of FAS. The policy of freezing salaries and curtailing new hires is appropriate because it does not necessitate any drastic shifts in policy or practice within a department or campus body. Although this policy affects many people, it does so to a manageable degree in order to distribute...
...said. She also mentioned that in years when she had less work for finals she was able to stay home and “have a really long break anyway.” The calendar reform, which was passed by Former Interim President Derek C. Bok in June of 2007, was endorsed by the university deans and the Undergraduate Council earlier that spring. Jon T. Staff V ’10, a former UC representative who worked on the issue, said that calendar reform was “always a longshot” and would not have happened without...
...developed an unbelievable ability to boil discussion of healthcare into sound bites, basic language." - John D. Rockefeller, Democratic senator, on Daschle's support for Hillary Clinton's healthcare reform efforts in the 1990s, Congressional Quarterly June...