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Americans’ confidence in their leaders is lower than ever, according to a study conducted by the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and U.S. News and World Report. Researchers polled Americans about their opinions regarding military, political...
A familiar situation. A familiar outcome.Tied at one with under a minute remaining in the final overtime period, the Harvard women’s soccer team suffered a heartbreaking defeat when Princeton senior forward Emily Behncke beat co-captain goalie Katie Shields with just under 14 seconds remaining.Last season, the...
Even though the commitment is there, the money isn't. A study by analysts at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco estimates that public-employee pension funds in the U.S. are short $700 billion. That's more than all state and local governments collected last year in property, sales and...
San Diego's excesses have attracted attention, but the city is hardly alone. The California Public Employees' Retirement System, better known as CalPERS, handed out a pension check last year for $272,200 to a retired university professor. A former water-district general manager collected $206,300. CalPERS, by the...
Under a new management team headed by Jacques Nasser, former chairman of Ford Motor Co., Polaroid returned to profitability almost overnight. Little more than two years after the company emerged from bankruptcy, One Equity sold it to a Minnesota entrepreneur for $426 million in cash. The new managers, who had...