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...University’s planned expansion into Allston will be partly financed through fundraising, but development there will outlast the likely five-year public phase of the capital campaign. Harvard may launch fundraising drives specifically for Allston or extend the campaign itself, Rapier said...
...similar survey in 2003. When the Democratic Party held a rally recently to protest what it felt was yet another example of China's meddling in Hong Kong-Beijing ruled that the next Chief Executive would serve only the remaining two years of Tung's five-year term-less than 1,500 people showed up. "It's not necessary to march anymore," says Ringo Lee, a 28-year-old bank marketing manager who took to the streets last July 1 but is now preoccupied with hunting for a new apartment to buy. Says Professor Joseph Cheng, head of City University...
...similar survey in 2003. When the Democratic Party held a rally recently to protest what it felt was yet another example of China's meddling in Hong Kong?Beijing ruled that the next Chief Executive would serve only the remaining two years of Tung's five-year term?less than 1,500 people showed up. "It's not necessary to march anymore," says Ringo Lee, a 28-year-old bank marketing manager who took to the streets last July 1 but is now preoccupied with hunting for a new apartment to buy. Says Professor Joseph Cheng, head of City University...
Questions about what ExxonMobil might do with its cash are unlikely to die down anytime soon. After all, the company's growth is slowing--Wall Street projects its five-year growth rate at 8%, vs. the industry's 14%--and its share price, after a dramatic run-up last year that pushed the company's market value past that of General Electric, is now off its peak by 16%, at a recent $54. Yet the cash hoard just keeps growing, rising $7 billion in the first quarter alone. "A lot of investors might think that share buybacks and dividends...
...quite so committed to a lifetime in uniform, the latest West Point innovation is Branch for Service, a program cadets took to calling Branch by eBay. It solves several complex problems with a simple trade. The Army's problem is that too many officers are leaving after their minimum five-year commitment. The cadets' problem is that if you don't have excellent grades, you often can't get the branch you want. The problems intersect because studies have shown that cadets who got their first choice were 10% more likely to stay beyond their minimum service. The simple proposal...