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Clark said that in the end he decided to resign from one of the companies to assuage potential concerns of other directors that sitting on both boards would have affected his judgment. He said he chose to resign from Lazard because he had invested a great deal of time into learning Time Warner’s business and felt that he would be more valuable remaining on its board...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former HLS Dean Leaves Board Post | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

...resources committee and the FAS financial staff “talked through” whether to borrow annually or withdraw a lump sum and chose the latter, Campbell said, because they expected the endowment to grow faster than the interest rate on debt. University President Lawrence H. Summers told the Faculty at its meeting last week that the Corporation—the University’s highest governing body—has approved the decapitalization “in recognition of what is by the FAS an extraordinary period of growth...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs, Deans Content as FAS Deficit Nears | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

Nichols resigned from the vice presidency last May, and both Munaim and Chadbourne chose not to seek reelection this fall...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UC Might Fix Outdated Site | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

...Like Brown and Yale, teams that similarly started the league season with a home-and-home, the Crimson chose to keep its schedule clear for a full week to prepare for the league contests...

Author: By Michael R. James, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cusworth, Stehle Shine in Victory | 1/17/2006 | See Source »

...wonder a panel of linguists chose truthiness--a word popularized by faux anchorman Stephen Colbert to mean "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than concepts or facts known to be true"--as 2005's word of the year. A Million Little Pieces is packed with truthiness the way Dunkin' Donuts' Latte Lite is packed with Splenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Memoirs | 1/15/2006 | See Source »

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