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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Little steps, like the New York City plan, are signs that officials are concerned about helping the mentally ill. The ambitious programs coursing their way through state legislatures to fund more care facilities are even bigger steps. But until concern for solving the problem permeates each neighborhood, each business and each government as deeply as does the illness itself, there will be little progress...
...Franny Loses a Fight," in The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving. All Hallow's Eve, Irving-style. Giant spikers. Heart attacks. Tortured children. A tragic rape. But there's the usual dose of good humor here, and Irving's spirit shines through bigger than the State o' Maine itself. This is Halloween candy to sink your wisdom teeth into, the Snickers bar in the bag of Golden Delicious apples...
...still wouldn't make a dent on the budget. The reason is that the endowment pays out a set rate more than it has paid out the previous year, regardless of how much it has grown in the meantime. Excess gains are reinvested, and the pot grows bigger...
There is no doubt that Harvard's endowment has benefitted from this pay out policy. When other universities, like Yale, spent their endowment gains in the early seventies, Harvard reinvested. Now Harvard's endowment is far bigger than the funds at schools that spent more liberally. The set rate also has helped the endowment weather onslaughts of high inflation and poor market performance...
When a reporter and photographer from Stern, the West German mass-circulation weekly, arrived at Room 317 in Geneva's Beau-Rivage Hotel last week for an interview with Politician Uwe Barschel, they got a bigger scoop than they bargained for. The journalists found Barschel, 43, who had recently resigned as minister-president of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, sitting in the bathtub, clothed, upright and very much dead...