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...ritual that takes place at the end of every Harvard women's basketball game. Win or lose, the Crimson gathers in the center-court circle, and the players raise one arm each, bringing their hands together above the center of their group with a lone index finger protruding from...
...every Harvard women's basketball game, the Crimson gathers in the center-court circle, and the players raise one arm each, bringing their hands together above the center of their group with a lone index finger protruding from...
...that can really use your $10 or more--that really do have needs. Ironically, Massachusetts--home to the University with the largest endowment in the world and the seventh richest non-profit in the U.S. as of 1996--ranked last among the 50 states last year in the "Generosity Index," a figure computed by the Boston-based Catalogue for Philanthropy. The index score reflects the fact that in 1996, Massachusetts residents ranked third in income earned and 43rd in charitable deductions...
...historic low: -4% of gross domestic product, according to Hormats. "This private-sector deficit is enormous," he says. People feel flush enough, due to their soaring stock portfolios, to keep buying consumer goods on credit--the so-called "wealth effect." But a drop in the Dow Jones index or some other shock could quickly erase those paper gains and choke off the spending boom. So while the Clinton Administration is touting consumption-driven growth, Dresdner Bank's Ernst-Moritz Lipp is critical. "We shouldn't praise as an important development something that is due to an unsustainably low savings rate...
Turn to the index of this memoir from the 60 Minutes correspondent, and under the entry "Donaldson, Sam" you'll find this subheading: "physical appearance of." Stahl describes her Watergate rival as resembling "a long-lost brother of Mr. Spock." Reporting Live is more engaging as an amalgam of such observations and tidbits than it is as a chronicle of Stahl's assignments during the '70s and '80s. The book also succeeds as a compelling portrait of a mother-daughter relationship: Dolly Stahl's a lot more quotable than Roger Mudd...