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...people both accountable and responsible.” An increasing number of opponents, though, believe that this policy leaves some of Harvard’s schools in danger. Critics often mention that FAS and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have a combined endowment of nearly $8 billion??a sum that exceeds the total endowment of all but four universities—while the School of Education and Design School only have access to endowments of under $500 million...
...afford to give trillion-dollar tax cuts and to set aside $100 billion??1 percent of its GNP—for a war with Iraq, he said, then it can contribute more than $200 million...
...large pig van leads the chain of vehicles, with “Pentagon. $396 Billion?? painted on its side. Two smaller piggy banks follow, reading “Education K-12. $34 Billion?? and “World Hunger and Poverty. $10 Billion...
...received from these blocked mergers since most mergers of large, competing companies fail. For proof, look at the fates of MCI Worldcom and AOL Time Warner, two companies whose plans for world domination through merger have failed of late. AOL just recorded the largest quarterly loss—$54 billion??in corporate history, and Worldcom’s CEO Bernie Ebbers has just resigned under pressure from his board for his poor management...
Last year, for example, the endowment surged $4.4 billion to $19.2 billion??a 30 percent leap. This year, the endowment dropped to $18.3 billion...