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...wake of the news about the magnitude of the endowment’s decrease, university officials have been promoting an increase in flexible funds raised in order to ensure that major priorities like financial aid can still be met. In other words, rather than encouraging donors to give earmarked gifts for specific purposes, the university has wisely been trying to convince its benefactors to not restrict their donations and to allow their resources to be allocated for whatever purpose deemed most in need of funding...
...mean the real power player may be the new High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, an awkward title for what is essentially the E.U. foreign minister. Whoever is named to this post will head the E.U.'s new 8,000-strong diplomatic service, oversee a $12 billion foreign aid budget and speak for the E.U. in key meetings with other countries...
...Credit for That? Justin Fox's "Get Homes Off Welfare" is quite a stretch [Oct. 12]. Real estate values have plummeted not because of government aid but because of people making poor decisions with their money after being convinced they could buy more than they could afford. My wife and I will be putting our tax credit into improving our new home, thereby injecting that money right back into the economy. Plenty of us are responsible enough to know our limitations and make good decisions with our money. Do not take benefits away from us because of the people...
...highway connecting central Nepal to China, and soon after, China announced plans to extend a controversial railway to Tibet as far as the border with Nepal. India is countering: after Beijing agreed to develop a massive copper field in Afghanistan, New Delhi pledged more than $1 billion in development aid to Kabul. (Download a PDF map of India and China...
...city’s fiscal responsibility is another issue of concern to candidates. Cambridge’s city budget grew by 2 percent this fiscal year from the year before—a growth, according to City Manager Healy, that in part alleviates the $9.7 million reduction in state aid to the city...