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...give back to their school, known as the “participation rate,” is sometimes viewed as a barometer of alumni confidence in an institution. Harvard’s rate fell slightly to 39 percent during fiscal year 2006—only a single percentage point lower than the previous year’s rate, but the College’s lowest since 1989. Fundraising from Harvard alumni still showed signs of strength last year, including a $41 million reunion donation from the Class of 1981. More than three-quarters of the class contributed to that fund...
...Cockney ballad My Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole and picks up on the way I always sound the consonant at the end of a word (I pronounce it righ-T, not righ'). According to him, I don't just have a British stiff upper lip but a tense lower one as well. He shows me what I'm doing and it looks uncannily like the Queen, whose voice is even more pinched than mine. He tells me to relax my face by pretending to be the British glamour model Jordan applying lipstick and I can hear an improvement when...
MINNESOTA, IOWA, THE DAKOTAS, NEBRASKA, MONTANA Despite lower income, rural whites in these states live longer (79 years) than wealthier whites in Middle America (77.9 years...
...only one of the three Democratic candidates who opposes reducing the state income tax, arguing instead that this revenue should be directed toward the improvement of state services. Patrick also supports using these funds to increase local aid to cities and municipalities, which will allow local governments to lower their property taxes—which, in turn, can help alleviate the Commonwealth’s skyrocketing housing costs. Anyone can score points with the electorate by promoting a tax cut, but Patrick alone has boldly fought for a level tax rate and increased funding where the state really needs...
...turnout Tuesday was lower than expected, despite the interest and a watershed opportunity created by Mayor Anthony Williams' stepping down after eight years on the job. Just over 32% of D.C. voters bothered to show up at polling places Tuesday. And unlike in neighboring, affluent Montgomery County, Md., where a series of screwups left voters writing their choices down on blank paper for officials to collect and count later, there were no long lines or busted machines keeping people away. Preliminary statistics show overall turnout in D.C. was actually lower this year than in 2002, when the incumbent Williams...