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...areas of focus for Harvard development are being done by new staff, while we continue to invest in the Harvard College Fund and our other annual fund efforts,” Rapier said in an e-mail.A NOT-SO-TAXING DECISIONHarvard could see an uptick in donations through the end of the year as the result of a tax provision passed by Congress in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.The provision enables donors to deduct up to 100 percent of their adjusted gross income when they contribute to charities, rather than the usual 50 percent deduction.While many charities are aggressively...
...term players are sitting in the stock," said Patrick McGurn, special counsel at Institutional Shareholder Services, which advises on proxy fights. Yet so far, long-term investors aren't biting. Many credit Parsons for having already made progress in getting Time Warner's house in order. And after an uptick following the disclosure of Icahn's plan, the stock has barely budged, a sign that Wall Street thinks he'll have trouble getting what he wants...
...Peace Prize nomination last week for his opposition to the war in Iraq. But none of the other signs are good. The party hasn't been able to capitalize on the CDU's rocky first few weeks of campaigning. Unemployment is still at a record high and a recent uptick in economic growth may have come too late to help. Then there are the problems in his own camp. Even as Schr?der battles for votes, members of his Cabinet are openly advocating joining a grand coalition with the CDU, while dissidents in his own party are making plans without...
...parked cars or vegetation to shield pedestrians from traffic. Reid Ewing, associate professor of urban studies at the University of Maryland, believes we may be seeing the first fruits of those efforts. After steadily declining for decades, the number of trips Americans made by walking showed a slight uptick in 2001, from 7% of all trips to 9%, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics...
...students surveyed call themselves born-again Christians, which would be a natural constituency for religious-fellowship groups on campuses. Evangelical student leaders at Indiana University estimate that fewer than 5% of the 30,000 undergraduates participate in one of the campus's Christian groups. But that's an uptick since the stridently secular 1960s, says dean of students Richard McKaig. In the past five years, "attention to spirituality has been especially strong." But committed Christians seem to want more than just spiritual living. "They're looking for something deeper," he says...