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...next year’s endowment payout rate—a figure generally announced in December—leaving schools to plan their budgets without definitive numbers while decisionmakers attempt to get a better idea of market conditions. Though the Corporation is meeting today, University administrators declined to discuss the topics on the agenda this weekend. In the meantime, schools are taking various approaches to prepare their budgets, which are generally due in April, despite the uncertainty over payout. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is planning for budget scenarios ranging from a flat payout to a five percent decrease...
...Khan said that his 2004 televised confession was a lie and that he had been pressured by Musharraf into making it. The same year, according to the Associated Press, the Pakistani government ordered Khan not to discuss nuclear weapons technology with anyone, including his family...
...Mexico City Policy was created by the Reagan administration in 1984 and announced at a United Nations population conference in that city. Contrary to claims made by various pro-choice organizations, the policy never forbade recipients from discussing abortion in cases of rape, incest, or threat to the mother’s life. Counselors were even permitted to discuss elective abortion if the woman asked. Moreover, the move aligned our foreign policy with the reasoning behind the Hyde Amendment to Medicaid appropriations bills, first passed in 1976, which prohibited federal funds from being spent on abortion in the United States...
...preparation for an upcoming protest to be staged by the Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based anti-gay group, the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School held a forum yesterday to discuss possible responses...
...dining hall incident to prompt a broad anti-discrimination policy that would extend to all workers at Harvard, including those who aren’t in a union. She and others at the meeting plan to draft an initial version of the new language this week and discuss it at a meeting next Thursday night. “All workers and students should be able to guarantee these principles and tenets that have been drafted by the community itself,” Aguilera said. Childs said he sees the incident as just one example of increasing intolerance, especially after...