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Several of Harvard’s wealthy peer institutions faced similar losses in fiscal year 2009. Last year, Yale’s endowment—higher education’s second largest after Harvard—fell 25 percent, and Stanford’s endowment fell by 27 percent.
The tie against the Redhawks was reminiscent of the Crimson’s first game against Princeton this season, when Harvard faced deficits of 2-0 and 3-1 before coming back to knot things up in an overtime finish.
Vinny Guadagnino, a cast member on MTV’s "Jersey Shore," says he faced this decision, and for him, the choice was clear.
"Our Administration has had some political setbacks this year, and some of them were deserved," he said. "But I wake up every day knowing that they are nothing compared to the setbacks that families all across this country have faced this year."
As UCLA political scientist Barbara Sinclair has documented, only eight percent of bills deemed “legislation to watch” by Congressional Quarterly faced filibusters or filibuster threats in the 1960s. For example, when Lyndon Johnson was counting votes for Medicare in 1965, he assumed that a majority...