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...decline brought the total value of the endowment as of June 30 down to $26 billion—on par with 2005 levels??after reaching almost $37 billion in 2008. The negative investment returns, combined with donations received and money paid out for operations, pushed the endowment’s total value down by $11 billion, or almost 30 percent...
...Bugandan’s last name is what brands him or her as a member of the Bugandan kingdom, Maureen told me. And the further you go down the name hierarchy, she said—to the tribe and then the clan levels??the more prominent a social role a last name plays. For example, though membership to any one clan can number in the thousands, no two people of the same clan—that is, two people out of hundreds who share the same last name—can marry...
...total annual salaries of subcontracted janitorial employees who had recently been laid off. The measure, intended to shame Harvard into backing off from layoffs, has since been tabled.Last week, Ward co-sponsored another resolution, calling on Harvard and MIT to request “concessions from employees at all levels?? before laying off low-income employees, a measure that was unanimously approved.Ward said that universities can play an important role in helping their home cities during difficult financial times. For example, he said, if cities are forced to cut library services, the universities should open their libraries...
...quantify. Sure, we assume that we are happier than anybody in Zimbabwe or Burundi could be right now. But then again Slovenia—a picturesque European country nestled between the Alps and the Mediterranean with a buoyant economy that is unlikely to recede and record low unemployment levels??has the fourth highest suicide rate in the world...
Taking into account the competitiveness of Harvard students, the Web site allows for three different “levels?? of sharing: group sharing, college sharing, and world sharing. Magliozzi, for one, hopes students will choose to share their information with the world. One of his goals is to use the internet to connect and link different texts and lectures; ideally, students reading about Mankiw’s lecture on marginal utility can click on a link that brings them to a Brown professor’s take...