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Yale’s endowment fell $1 billion more than expected to $16 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, marking a 30 percent decline in value, Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced yesterday. In an e-mail to faculty, staff, and alumni, Levin wrote that previous projections of a 25 percent endowment drop had not accounted for the continued slide in private equity and real estate holdings even after stock markets began to rebound this spring. The unexpected additional fall in the endowment will lead to a 6.7 percent decrease in endowment payout this year and another...
...much touted “House renewal” process won’t start until at least 2012, according to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith. Some locals and preservationists may be fighting for the buildings to be saved, but Yale University President Richard Levin told the Yale Daily News that the two new residential colleges will probably open...
This notion - that in times of change, we seek the comfort of what we know - repeatedly shows up in culture. You see it in ads for comfort foods and household products, and you also see it in high culture. In Anna Karenina, when Konstantin Levin goes home to the countryside from Moscow after his marriage proposal is rebuffed, Levin feels the confusion of his life "gradually clearing up and the shame and dissatisfaction with himself going away." (See nine kid foods to avoid...
KILL PROGRAM Levin (D., Mich.) McCain (R., Ariz...
...Senate ignored such pleas to approve an amendment by Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Senator John McCain of Arizona, its ranking Republican, to strike the $1.75 billion their committee had added (over Levin and McCain's objections) for seven more F-22s. Both Pentagon and congressional aides say the vote effectively ends the program...