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...When I point out that the initial story the site posted in March on Nick Schuyler, the football player who survived a storm at sea, carried Zaleski's byline even though 80% of the copy was taken verbatim from the St. Petersburg Times, Huffington says that the story drew from several sources - and that they don't mind. "We drive millions of page views to people who produce content," she says, "and we get a hundred requests a day from editors and reporters to link to them." Not everyone is so thrilled. "HuffPo regularly borrows a chunk of our stories...
...Safe Zone In most middle and high schools around the country, sex education is handled by an athletic coach doubling as a health teacher or by a science instructor who drew the short straw. Kristen Jordan is not one of those teachers. Walk past her classroom on the first day of sixth grade and you'll hear her leading the students in an enthusiastic chorus of "Penis! Penis! Penis! Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!" "Until they can use the real names for their body parts without giggling," she explains, "you can't talk to them about anything serious." The attractive 27-year...
...heat that didn’t count for anything. Nearing the end of a senior season that saw his pool-time cut drastically by a chronic injury, swimmer Dan Jones hit the water for a non-scoring run of his signature event, the 100 butterfly. The event drew little interest from the crowd.Jones’ finish was a different story. Fans and teammates exploded in jubilation when the Crimson swimmer’s time was displayed on the board, showing that he had recorded the fastest effort of the day—a mark that bested the January...
...former director of the IOP Skills Program, wrote in a December 2005 Crimson editorial that the endowment was nearly $100 million. IOP Director Bill P. Purcell said that he expected the endowment’s decline to match that of Harvard’s overall endowment. In December, President Drew G. Faust warned that this drop-off could reach 30 percent by the end of the fiscal year. Purcell said he was confident in the ability of the IOP to continue providing services to its students. “We feel very comfortable that we’ll be able...
...economic reality,” Shore said. “The question is, how do you start to get back to a more sustainable place?” Since the endowment fell 22 percent in four months last year from its peak value of $36.9 billion, University President Drew G. Faust has repeatedly stated that the University estimates a 30 percent decline in endowment value by June 30. The Corporation—Harvard’s highest governing body—adjusts the payout rate each year according to endowment returns, ensuring that the amount of money available for budgeting...