Word: annualized
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...hear another Republican politician spout the talking point that health care should be between patient and doctor and not a bureaucrat, I'm going to pull out what little hair I have left. My wife and I are self-employed. Our health-care costs eat up much of our annual income, and neither of us has a chronic illness. I would much rather have a bureaucracy deliver affordable coverage at whatever inconvenience than be squeezed dry by rapacious Republican-loving drug and insurance companies. Mark Dunn, Albuquerque...
...Harvard Black Pre-Law Association (BPLA) hosted its first annual Ruffin Dinner last Friday to honor two individuals who embodied service, leadership and creativity in law during a transformative period in United States history. The honorees, actor Voltaire R. Sterling, who graduated from the Law School in 2005, and Judge Joyce London Alexander Ford, spoke to dinner guests on the importance of social activism and minority leadership under President Obama. “In an unprecedented manner, the Obamas have charged us to ensure that the change we wish to see in this community is ultimately brought about...
...timing could not be more ideal. Days after President Obama fired the CEO of General Motors, and instructed GM and Chrysler to fix up fast or drive headlong into bankruptcy, college basketball's annual bonanza, the Final Four, has arrived in the Motor City to provide a much-needed distraction. What's even sweeter: Michigan State University, located just 90 miles west of Detroit in East Lansing, made the national semifinals this year, giving the locals more reason to cheer (unless, of course, they bleed the University of Michigan's maize and blue and wouldn't dare root...
...Some of this year's Final Four spending won't even stay in the country. More than half of the several thousand college basketball coaches who flock to the Final Four for their annual convention will be lodging across the river - and border - in Windsor, Ontario. Don't underestimate the financial clout of the coaches, who wander around the host city in their schools' sweat suits (Look, there goes Coach K from Duke! And over there, an assistant coach from Le Moyne!), angling for job gossip and drinking lots of beer. We're talking buckets of beer. And since both...
...University announced its early retirement incentive program for staffers at least 55 years of age and who have worked at Harvard for a minimum of 10 years as of June 30 of this year. Those who take the package will receive one-time pension benefits equal to their annual salaries, reduced by any severance packages they had been entitled to receive.—Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...