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...rely heavily on endowment income. Those two schools drew 46 and 66 percent of their operating expenditures, respectively, from their endowments as of 2006. Harvard has emphasized that its endowment growth has been used to increase financial aid, one of Grassley’s oft-cited goals in criticizing low endowment spending rates. For example, the press release accompanying Harvard’s investment returns today mentions “financial aid” six times in its first five paragraphs. Grassley has recently toned down his legislative threats as schools have posted lower returns amidst a market downturn. Earlier...
...which is struggling to sustain interest. The number of aspiring wrestlers is dwindling: Whereas each tournament used to attract over 100 new applicants up until about a decade ago to join the ranks of the rikishi, in the most recent event there were only three. "Because of a low birth rate there are fewer children to grow up to become sumo wrestlers," says sports journalist Seijun Ninomiya. "So, out of necessity, we began to turn to overseas athletes." Today, more than one fourth of the professional wrestlers in the top two divisions are foreigners who have no grounding...
...throughout the game—and especially early. Harvard tallied 13 shots in the opening half as Sheeleigh, Baskind, and senior Erin Wylie fired at will. Sheeleigh finally found net in the 33rd minute, taking Kuzma’s pass and beating Wildcats keeper Ally Yost low to the left from 18 yards. The second half saw better opportunities for New Hampshire, which threatened to tie things up in the middle of the period with a flurry of shots from its front line. But Mann and her back four staved off the pressure, and Harvard controlled play for the final...
...certainly seems like he was at one point, based on the incidents the Palin family compiled. After all, who Tasers a 10-year-old boy, even if it was the boy's idea in the first place, and even if the Taser was on a low setting? But the state troopers investigated all the allegations and let Wooten off with just a 10-day suspension (the police union eventually got it down to five). As of this July, the custody case was still unsettled. And the fact that Wooten served on the Alaskan equivalent of a SWAT team shows that...
...regularly files a video blog that has included intimate footage of his family. He also allowed Dylan Jones, the editor of GQ magazine, to shadow him over a year for a book of interviews called Cameron on Cameron, in which he talks fluently about everything from high politics to low culture...