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...Will the United States ever get rid of the death penalty? Probably not in my lifetime or my children’s lifetime. But there’s the possibility for it to go away,” she said, citing what she called a “precipitous decline?? in the number of American executions after...
Though Bloom had not accounted for a major economic recession when he created the reserve funds—worrying instead that federal research funding might decline??he said he hoped that the money set aside would help the School of Public Health pull through current economic troubles...
...reality often isn’t that simple. London’s strange, new ethnic milieu—the setting of Zadie Smith’s amazing first novel “White Teeth”—is rife with fear and uncertainty. A generation on the decline??Archie’s generation—retreats into an imagined past for comfort, while the next struggles with a seemingly divergent identity. With an acute sense of both the pathos and the humor of the modern immigrant’s lot, Smith crafts a narrative that entertains...
...extreme uncertainty in our economy and a level of volatility and dysfunction in many types of investments that went well beyond all previous experience,” wrote Mendillo, who took the helm at HMC only last summer. The decline??the largest ever experienced at HMC, which manages Harvard’s endowment—was not unexpected, and administrators have been planning for a 30 percent decline since December. Many peer institutions have been anticipating similar losses...
...unclear how much of an impact the symbolic measure will have on Stanford’s finances—the university’s endowment valued at $17 billion as of June 2008 is expected to suffer at least a 30 percent decline??but Hennessy earned roughly $700,000 in salary and benefits in fiscal year 2007 according to federal tax filings...