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...line, and Baskind used her speed to streak past the defense, stay onside, and beat the Wisconsin keeper one-on-one. Harvard couldn’t keep the Badgers off the scoreboard and the game ended in a 1-1 tie after two overtimes, but Baskind had made her mark. With All-Ivy goalkeeper Lauren Mann and an experienced back four holding down the Crimson zone—Mann recorded nine shutouts last season to lead the league—Harvard’s struggles for wins have been struggles for points. “We want to win?...
...Harvard sets five percent as its payout goal but has exceeded that mark only once in the past decade. This is in large part due to consistently high investment returns, as the five percent target is based on a projected endowment growth rate of eight percent, which the last decade of returns has proven to be a conservative projection...
...fast-growing endowments. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, floated the possibility of mandating a minimum five-percent payout rate for higher education endowments, similar to the current standards for foundations and other charities that receive tax-exemptions. Harvard sets five percent as its payout goal, but it has exceeded that mark only once in the past 10 years. This is in large part due to consistently high investment returns, as the five percent target is based on a projected endowment growth rate of eight percent, which the last decade of returns has proven to be a conservative projection. Last year, governmental...
...reissued in paperback, and a second Sarah Palin bio is already in the works, with 100,000 copies coming out in October. While Barack Obama's two books are best sellers, John McCain fills more shelf space: since becoming a Senator, he's penned five hefty tomes with speechwriter Mark Salter...
...candidates will gather briefly at the site of the World Trade Center to mark the seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks in 2001. Neither man will speak at the site; they will instead bear witness to the tragedy that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., and left thousands of others wounded. It is enough that they would stand side-by-side to mark the anniversary. "We will put aside politics and come together," the two men said in a statement released jointly...