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...Bogert blasted Harvard for what she sees as its contentment to sit on the endowment, which is set to hit $100 billion in a decade. She asked, “Why do all those clever classmates of mine continue to invest their money in an institution with such a lack of imagination about how to deploy its resources...
...Meanwhile, civilian suffering continues, largely unnoticed by the world. Aid workers must contend with a relative lack of interest in south Sudan, which festers in the shadow of Sudan's other ethnic war, Darfur. Asked how bad the situation was in south Sudan, senior U.N. official Simon Strachan replied: "In south Sudan, women are eight times more likely to die in childbirth than they are of finishing primary school...
...windows is fire," says Finnur Oddsson, managing director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Instead, he peers out at a $138 million construction project at the University of Reykjavik. Iceland, he points out, has been in this situation before. In early 2006, credit agencies criticized Icelandic banks for their lack of transparency and reliance on international capital markets. Analysts' opprobrium drove the krona down by 25% against the dollar over six months. Yet Iceland never defaulted on a single loan, signaling a disconnect between foreign perception and domestic reality. "We learned our lesson: we need to tell our story," says...
...They wouldn't want me. I don't think they'd like my skinny-jeans squad. If I'm President, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights--I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in. I don't know if the country is ready...
...lack of evidence and the denials have hardly diminished the Indian media's obsession with the police's sensational theory. Cameras have been following the Talwars and the Durranis everywhere. The English-language daily Hindustan Times ran a profile of Dr. Talwar called "How Dr Jekyll Turned Mr Hyde." Appeals by the Talwar and Durrani families to respect their privacy have made no difference. Personal family video has been aired on television. It is the kind of frenzy Western audiences have gotten used to since the still-unsolved JonBenet Ramsey case in the U.S. more than a decade...