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...survey also found that the average annual income expected by members of the class of 1995 in 20 years is $98,000. Seniors said the amount was a good benchmark...
...While the absolute return of 16.8 percent is substantial, relative performance in fiscal 1995 was somewhat disappointing," President Jack R. Meyer wrote in the letter. "This is the first time in the last four years that we have fallen short of our performance benchmark...
...think they [the returns] were good. Straight equities did better than the S&P [Standard and Poor's 500 stock index], though they didn't meet their benchmark," said Robert G. Stone Jr. '44, a member of the Corporation, Harvard's governing board...
...performance also fell 0.4 percent short of HMC's internal benchmark, the Policy Portfolio, which it uses to determine the success of its year...
...Europe's benchmark bloodsucker is generally considered to be Vlad the Impaler, an inspiration for Dracula. Andrei Codrescu's novel The Blood Countess (Simon & Schuster; 347 pages; $23) offers an equally unattractive alternative: Elizabeth Bathory, a 16th century Hungarian tyrant alleged to have killed 650 girls in the belief that bathing in their blood would preserve her youth and beauty. Though never tried for mass murder, Bathory is said to have been confined to a room of her castle, where after five years she died...