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...Since 2001, the income of the poorest 10% of Brazilians has risen 23%, while the income of the richest 10% fell by 7.5%, according to Neri. "The period since 2001 is one in which we've seen the biggest reduction in inequality in 36 years. I think this is a historic and important moment. We are changing Brazil...
Yale’s endowment return rate also eclipsed that of the third-richest university, Stanford. The California party school reported returns of 19.4 percent this past year, raising its overall holdings to $15.2 billion...
...return is estimated to have come in just above the average” for the 25 richest universities, according to Harvard’s chief investor, Mohammed A. El-Erian. And “just above the average” is not a place where Harvard likes...
Ride a bull for a living, and you can be the richest rag doll on earth. All you have to do is last eight excruciating seconds on an agitated 1,800-lb. animal that would like nothing more than to smash you against the sideboards of the arena, fling you off its back and gore you with its horns. On the Professional Bull Riders (PBR) tour, concussions and broken bones are as common as Wranglers and brass-buckled belts. "Most bull riders are what you call gristleheads," says Mike Lee, 23, who has won $2 million in five years...
...exercise. And yet from the State Department to the White House to the highest reaches of the military command, there is a growing sense that a showdown with Iran--over its suspected quest for nuclear weapons, its threats against Israel and its bid for dominance of the world's richest oil region--may be impossible to avoid. The chief of the U.S. Central Command (Centcom), General John Abizaid, has called a commanders conference for later this month in the Persian Gulf--sessions he holds at least quarterly--and Iran is on the agenda...