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With Harvard’s wallet now $2.6 billion fatter, he has been indisputably successful at the first. With the planning that campaign required, plus other University-wide initiatives, he is widely acknowledged to have been successful at the second. As important as those two tasks have been to Harvard, they may have cost Rudenstine an even larger legacy than the one he leaves...
...Rudenstine didn’t pull out. And here he is, 10 years later. In his wake he leaves a conflicting record—the potential for a larger campus, a fatter wallet, a more diverse University, but a diminished bully pulpit and a distinct sense of distance between students and University administration...
...toward immediate tax relief is likely to have more political than economic impact. For America's $10 trillion economy, a $60 billion tax reduction would offer mostly a psychological lift. But both Congress and the White House are betting that even if wallets don't get a whole lot fatter, the cut will make consumers think Washington is doing something for them...
...That's right, kids of America. You're getting fatter every time we look at you. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, as of 1999, 13 percent of kids ages 6 to 11 were overweight, up from 11 percent during the last survey period, between 1988 and 1994. A whopping 14 percent - up from a previous 11 percent - of teens are now considered overweight...
...kids getting fatter...