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...sure, the management company is stillearning money. This year, returns on the endowmentwere 11.8 percent. But Harvard's performancecontinues to lag well behind that of otheruniversities...
Interviews last week with security officials at other universities showed that Harvard may lag far behind in the sophistication of its sensitivity training, and in the qualifications of supervisors...
...association has not yet released an average for 1992. But according to HMC President Jack R. Meyer, the 11.8 percent return might lag several points behind that of other universities, largely because Harvard's portfolio is heavily weighted toward foreign equities, which demonstrated lackluster performance...
...agenda. Bunny -- the unserious one, the blabbermouth, the buffoon -- begins to suspect the quartet of the killing in the field. In general Tartt shows a superior sense of pace, playing off her red herrings and foreshadowings like an old hand at the suspense game. The book's only lag occurs in her needlessly elaborate effort to turn Bunny from a likable pest into someone obnoxious enough for Richard to want to kill (for the others, fear of detection is enough). The cause of Bunny's mounting hysteria, of course, is simple: he is going from suspicion to terror...
...even long-established multiethnic states seem to be immune from breakup. For 74 years Czechoslovakia achieved a mostly peaceful accommodation between Slovaks and Czechs. As recently as 1989 they were solidly united in the "velvet revolution" against communist rule. But now, driven by discontent with their economic lag, the Slovaks have won Czech agreement to effect a "velvet divorce," splitting up peacefully by Sept. 30 into two countries. Both sides are having second thoughts and talking about forming some sort of confederation. But ethnic separatism may be a genie difficult to cram back into the bottle. Says Slovak leader Vladimir...