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...this end, the Crimson Arts Board proudly presents to you its annual Best of the Year Poll. For a glorious, fleeting moment, it will make you forget all the papers you're supposed to be writing. Then you can get back to watching this on repeat...
First, while it’s true that high-risk investments have increased the endowment exponentially, the story doesn’t end there. Many people strongly urge slow, low risk growth for educational institutions. Careful growth discourages $35 million salaries for investment-portfolio jockeys, helps restore balance between the liberal arts and the sciences, and minimizes steep budget fluctuations (leading to better departmental planning and reducing cuts). Most importantly, it controls the viral hunger for ever-larger returns on capital—a hunger that subverts the university’s critical search for a “veritas?...
...with him and his willingness to give back,” said classmate Ralph T. Linsalata, commenting on Joseph’s nonprofit work and his career in general. “In the financial services world he’s had a significant impact. He always seemed to end up as the driving force...
...past, one gained national recognition for a reason—due to an accomplishment, contribution, or ability. Now, however, celebrity has become an end in and of itself—reality television creates cultural icons who are famous for nothing other than their own celebrity. Consequently, people seek prominence to gain more prominence, pulling stunts they think could land them a reality-television-show role. This obsession with fame for fame’s sake reflects a strange trend in American culture. While we recognize that the desire for prominence is nothing new, the new media machine that creates stars...
Such has been the topsy-turvy nature of the tribunal. Indeed, just getting to the end of the first case was an ordeal. There have been allegations of a kickback scheme where Cambodian employees at the tribunal are forced to pay back a part of their salaries to the government officials who gave them their jobs. On two different occasions, only last-minute donations from Japan allowed the Cambodian side of the court to pay its staff. Then, in a fiasco dubbed Waterlilygate, one of the international lawyers said documents found in a moat filled with lilies had been stolen...