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...blame the Federal Reserve. Chairman Greenspan has done his part by cutting short-term rates deeper and faster than at any time since the 1990-91 recession. When the Fed meets Aug. 21, he is likely to drop the benchmark Fed Funds target rate again--to 3.5% from the current 3.75%. That rate...
...Bank of Japan will cut its benchmark interest rate by 0.01 percent to 0.02 percent, in the hopes of stimulating consumer spending over there. (May not reflect actual numbers...
...students bombed the AP test, that would show that my own tests were too easy-and that my students weren't really learning anything. The House, worried about establishing a national curriculum, allows states to opt out of NAEP and use different exams for comparison. But with no national benchmark, it will be much harder for the feds to monitor the quality of state exams-and to sanction states that make their tests too easy...
Harvard will be hard-pressed to finish at the top of the Heptagonal tally next season with record-breaking athletes like Schutte, Taylor and Gyorffy departing at the end of the season. The achievements of these 2001 Crimson seniors will be the benchmark of Harvard teams for years to come...
...officials say Jon Jacobson, one of HMC’s top investors, was just too good to lose. In his final year at HMC, Jacobson’s fund saw a return of 42.4 percent—solidly outperforming the S&P 500 benchmark rise of 34.7 percent...