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...don’t think that we have to be the means for them to make that political statement,” said panelist Joseph M. Kristol...
...Washington may be understandably confused after Ahmadinejad’s mixed message in Geneva. However, a more crucial question to ask is how relevant Ahmadinejad’s anti-Zionist comments are to a U.S.-Iran negotiation. For the record, Ahmadinejad’s voice, as presented in the statement, only repeats Durban’s 2001 acrimony over Zionism and racism—no originality scored here. Ahmadinejad’s entirely unnecessary dwelling on the question was as far from the good, old art of diplomacy as the walkouts and boycotts of the conference altogether...
...elicited giggles from the college-aged audience. Round One ended with all but one contestant still in play, but Round Two signaled the introduction of more difficult words. At times the word difficulty seem to vary dramatically from contestant to contestant. One ousted speller highlighted this trend with the statement, “Are you serious? We went from shrapnel to Gethsemane?” As the competition reached its later stages, the field was trimmed dramatically due to the appearance of words that not even Microsoft Word’s spellcheck could comprehend, such as fomites, skookum, and sialogogue...
...roughly a quarter of its 200 employees, mostly support staff, in an attempt to “re-balance and re-engineer the organization.” Real estate has traditionally been a difficult asset class to valuate and provides very limited liquidity. According to a University statement, real estate investments currently make up approximately 7 to 8 percent of the University’s endowment—a slight drop from the 9 percent, or almost $3.5 billion, allocated in 2008. Cummings will work with HMC’s head of external management, CEO, and real estate team...
...that the deadline for FAS staffers to accept their retirement incentive packages has passed, University spokesman Kevin Galvin wrote in an e-mailed statement that “University officials are beginning to take up the question of a faculty program in earnest...