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Though Kessel admitted that HUDS had been feeling the effects of budget cuts for quite some time, he said that he believes HUDS still runs one of the College’s benchmark programs...
...office in the early 1990s. Kagan’s Law School colleagues all praised her work and sought to use her government service as an example for HLS students about to enter the work-force. Kagan’s recent Supreme Court appearance—a benchmark for success for the nation’s top lawyers—was front and center in the panel discussion. Fried, himself a veteran of the Supreme Court, commended Kagan for her ability to give and take in argument and acknowledge difficulty in argument before the nation’s top legal minds...
...strong rebound by the market since May, after a decisive general-election victory by India's Congress Party boosted investors' hopes that the ruling coalition government would have the votes to push through key financial sector reforms and privatization. From May through Sept. 9, the Bombay Stock Exchange's benchmark Sensex index rose 42%, bouncing back from a 52% decline in 2008. As stocks revived, so did India's moribund IPO market. Since May, eight companies have raised about $2.5 billion in initial offerings; there was just one IPO in the first five months of 2009, according to Indian capital...
Absolute return investments, which include some externally managed funds and made up 18 percent of the portfolio at the start of the last fiscal year, fell by 18.6 percent, or 5.4 percent more than the benchmark set by HMC’s board. The value of externally managed private equity holdings, representing 13 percent of the portfolio, dropped by a staggering 31.6 percent—nearly 8 percent more than the benchmark...
...opposing settlements, mainly by evacuating small outposts while supporting the large, suburban-style blocs. In 2005, Israel turned Gaza over to Palestinian control, ceding major settlements for the first time in 30 years. For the settlers, who frequently justify their presence as sanctioned by God, that act was a benchmark provocation and - in the view of religious nationalists - a divine repudiation of Israel's failure to settle yet more land. The government compensated each of the Gaza families with up to $400,000, but the money is of little interest to Sharon Katz and others in Efrat. They intend...