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...where is the famed $22 billion endowment going? The trouble is, administrators explain, while the University may be busting at the seams with money, only a small portion of that is allocated to the College every year...
...certainly seemed that way last week, when the California Governor responded to a question about illegal immigration by saying the U.S. should "close the borders" with Mexico to stop "all of those people coming across." The gaffe infuriated the state's Hispanic voters, and Schwarzenegger rushed to explain he had meant to say "securing our border," blaming the misunderstanding on a "language problem." But suddenly the Governor's heavily accented bons mots didn't seem so charming. Political circles were buzzing that Schwarzenegger, whose approval rating has plunged from 65% last year to 49%, may have lost his groove...
That neurological process might explain, in part, the urge to stay put in crises. "Most people go their entire lives without a disaster," says Michael Lindell, a professor at the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. "So, the most reasonable reaction when something bad happens is to say, This can't possibly be happening to me." Lindell sees the same tendency, which disaster researchers call normalcy bias, when entire populations are asked to evacuate...
...Mostellaria” takes place during the day in which Theopropides (played by A. Benet Magnuson ’06), father of Philolaches (Frederick C. Brown ’06), comes home. There are slaves to deal with the mess, but more difficult to explain is the disappearance of large amounts of money, much of which went to buy the freedom of Philematium (Claire E. Catenaccio ’07), Philolaches’ favorite prostitute...
...Chicago gang's accounting books found that street-corner crack dealers in the 1980s made less than minimum wage. They stayed in the job because they aspired to rise through the ranks and make six figures--which only a few top leaders ever achieved. In other words, the authors explain, "the gang's wages [were] about as skewed as wages in corporate America...