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Charitable giving tends to correlate with the stock market and broader economic performance, Kaplan said. She said that this year’s decline in giving is not surprising given the past year’s economic performance...
...Just as when biologists get upset when poachers kill the last specimen of a given species, so too medievalists get upset when one of the last positions in paleography gets eliminated,” Hamburger said...
...time federal agencies had given additional research funding a green light, Harvard administrators and researchers had less than two years to submit grant proposals and spend stimulus money...
...particular importance in determining the shape and even the fate of Obama's signature domestic initiative, health care reform. It is the CBO that will decide the politically loaded question of whether reform actually saves the Treasury money or instead adds to the deficit. (So far, the CBO has given it a thumbs-up.) The President has focused even more attention on the CBO's numbers by insisting that any bill reaching his desk not add to the deficit over the next 10 years. Obama has even set a target - an overall price tag of $900 billion or less - that...
With nowhere to go, Gates was given an impromptu tour at the airport by his former military adviser General David Rodriguez, now No. 2 to General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. He ushered Gates through a hangar outfitted as NATO's new cyber-command-and-control center. One of his staff whispered, "An enormous well-oiled machine for eatin' bad guys." In another hangar, Gates got a glimpse of the fledgling Afghan air force and stepped into the cockpit of an old Russian Mi-17 attack helicopter. "Don't you love the irony of Gates...