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...endowment fund at Oxford is about $1.3 billion, and Cambridge's stands at roughly $2 billion. (The universities' individual colleges - Oxford has 39, Cambridge 31 - separately hold endowments worth a total of $11 billion.) At London's Imperial College, one of the world's best for scientific research, funds amount to around $115 million; and the endowment at the London School of Economics (LSE) is worth some $110 million. Over the last 50 years in Britain, says Richard, who was Yale's Provost before moving to Cambridge in 2003, "the great efforts that were taken in the U.S. to call...
Crucial in fleshing out Warwick's goals was input from its Council, the university's executive body, drawn largely from professions outside academia. Lay members, many working in business and industry, "add an enormous amount to the institution," says Thrift. Indeed, many U.S. and U.K. universities pack their governing bodies with external members; the LSE, for instance, "is, technically speaking, a company," says Howard Davies, its director. "The university has always had something like a corporate board...
...Such statements have cleared the way for Catholics like Kmiec to reevaluate what it means to cast a pro-life vote. "It's been 20-some years of trying to get the next vote on the court to overturn Roe," says Kmiec, "and I asked myself, What does that amount to?" He worries that by backing the G.O.P. strategy of holding out for a ban on abortion, pro-life voters have not focused on more pragmatic ways to reduce abortion rates...
...philosophize" was once The Crimson's motto. And yet, in these settings, that is precisely what is expected of the writer-- to draw some larger conclusion about events that, on most days, wouldn't have warranted a second look. While I have learned a good deal in the short amount of time I have spend in the city, any sweeping generalization about life that I could draw at present would almost certainly be a stretch...
...every election since, candidates taking federal funds for the primary contest agreed to spend a limited amount - set by the FEC - during that stage of the campaign. But candidates must manage their money carefully: Bob Dole reached his spending limit in the 1996 race months before the party's summer convention, leaving him gasping in the final weeks of primaries and prompting George W. Bush to opt out of public primary funding altogether in the 2000 election. (Bush did take $67.6 million in general election public funds.) In 2004, John Kerry and Howard Dean also opted out of primary public...