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...time, FAS faced a $220 million deficit after the University lost nearly 30 percent of its endowment within a period of four months...
...women’s singles event, Chen finished second in the Round Robin First Round event, advancing to the second round of the tournament against the first seeded Sara Hazinski from Texas Wesleyan. Although Chen lost, 11-2, 11-2, 11-2, looking back she describes the match as “interesting.” “[Hazinski] wasn’t doing anything incredibly complicated, she was just really consistent,” Chen said...
...earlier version of the Apr. 14 news article "Graduate Student Teaching Fellows Lost in Translation" incorrectly suggested that there is a total of 230 international students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In fact, the 230 figure refers to the approximate number of incoming international students each year...
...winning candidate often does not represent the policy preferences of the majority of voters. In the presidential election of 1844, when slave-owner James Polk defeated widely-respected abolitionist Henry Clay, Polk’s fellow abolitionist James Birney accounted for the narrow difference in many states that Clay lost, and probably cost abolitionists the presidency decades before the Civil War. In 1912, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eugene Debs created a jumbled electoral confusion and allowed Woodrow Wilson to waltz to the presidency despite the fact that Taft and Roosevelt combined had won far more votes...
...always lost a lot of fans,” explained Stirratt, “especially after the first record… even then, early on, we just realized that you were going to disappoint people no matter what you did, and that you needed to forge ahead and make records that were interesting...