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Photographer Larry Birkhead's DNA beat out the laggardly genes of lawyer Howard K. Stern to win paternity of late maybe-billionaire Anna Nicole Smith's daughter Dannielynn. Reported TMZ.COM: "Stern said Birkhead was welcome to come to the house and spend as much time with Dannielynn as he wanted." SCORE...
...problems of our high-stress environment. Some faculty and administrators may fail to understand that our time at home is necessary for stability and to recover from the stress of a college environment. This not only means time to rest and relax, but it also means time to spend with family and friends. Unfortunately, as Harvard’s mental health professionals have agreed, the current calendar renders our academic breaks brief and harried with the stress of looming finals and papers and an unreasonably short length (two or more weeks shorter than most schools). Furthermore, our strangely short winter...
...last summer, at least four major donations to Harvard totaling $390 million were reportedly withdrawn. In the most high-profile case, Oracle CEO Lawrence J. Ellison publicly withdrew a pledge to donate $115 million to the school, saying he had lost confidence in University’s ability to spend the money wisely. Other donors declined requests for gifts or called for donations of as little as $1 in response to the resignation...
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week persuaded skeptical Congressional leaders to allow the U.S. to spend $43 million beefing up Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas. She countered Congressional concerns over aid reaching terrorists now that Abbas has bucked the U.S. by joining with Hamas in a national unity government, pointing out that the money would be spent on securing borders into Gaza and strengthening the Palestinian security force responsible for stopping weapons being smuggled into the territory...
...intends to spend a further $16 million modernizing security technology at the Karni crossing that links Gaza to Israel. At present, some 30 to 40 trucks are manually searched each day, severely restricting the economic viability of export-oriented agriculture and dairy operations in Gaza. A new plan, drawn up by U.S. Army general Keith Dayton, envisages installing the same X-ray machines used to screen trucks at U.S. borders at Karni. By allowing up to 400 commercial trucks to pass from Gaza to Israel each day, the U.S. hopes to stimulate the Palestinian economy...