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...billion price tag. Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senator Reid, dismisses suggestions that women are being targeted and notes that Senators are looking everywhere for ways to fund the bill. "There was a point a few weeks ago when Senator Reid needed some additional revenue for this bill - the goal was to keep all the financing within the health care arena, and in the end, he decided to include this provision in the bill," says Manley...
...Professors. When compounded with the level of prestige attendant to professorship here, most professors are deeply contented to be on the faculty of Harvard University. Similarly, many students are already eager to earn a graduate degree here; providing extra incentives need not be our priority right now. While the goal of preserving the quality of teaching and research at Harvard is an essential one, these raises will have little impact. Instead, Dean Smith should have directed FAS funds toward returning staff and services—spending for which the student benefits are much more certain...
...goal is not to squeeze money out but to make the library as effective as possible,” he said...
Responding to concerns of competition from libraries at peer institutions, Hyman said that he also had a competitive side. He reaffirmed that the University’s goal is “to make sure that we as a university have without question the best university library in the world...
...years ago, the evangelist Oral Roberts launched an appeal for money so that graduates of the Tulsa, Okla., medical school he founded at Oral Roberts University (ORU) could serve in overseas missions. People were urged to send at least $100 apiece within three months to help reach a goal of $4.5 million. Then Roberts dropped a bombshell. If donations fell short, said the preacher, God would strike him down. "I'm asking you to help extend my life," he said. "We're at the point where God could call Oral Roberts home in March." TIME's story on the incident...