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Harvard Management Company President Jack Meyer, who manages Harvard’s endowment, said the Corporation’s current conservatism is probably due to the sagging economy and its toll on the endowment...
...Meyer said the Corporation relies on a formula to guide its decision about payout. The formula gives 70 percent weight to the previous year’s spending plus the Higher Education Price Index—a measure of inflation—and 30 percent weight to the endowment’s market performance...
...side effect of his closed-border policy is the rumors that circulate about him. A quick rundown: Is he still dating Jennifer Meyer, daughter of Universal Studios head honcho Ron? Probably--but he doesn't talk about it. Does he really have a bad back that limits his ability to do stunts? Yes, but it's feeling fine these days, thanks. Did Columbia Pictures try to replace him in Spider-Man II with rival boy-man Jake Gyllenhaal? And did he have to beg his way back into the Spidey suit, with the help of the aforementioned well-connected girlfriend...
...committee, she is director of Earle's victim-witness division. Other members include Patricia Barrera, a devoutly Roman Catholic Latina who has a stained-glass cross affixed to her window and tries to reconcile her church's opposition to the death penalty with her duties as a prosecutor; Buddy Meyer, the gruff head of the trial division, who has a handlebar mustache and a picture of a Texas Ranger on his wall; and LaRu Woody, director of the family-justice division, who possesses a strong libertarian streak--she has a SMOKING PERMITTED sign in her office even though she doesn...
...members met to consider the Delamora case several months before the trial, which was held last July. The death committee struggled with this question: Did Delamora know he was firing at a cop? Getting a capital-murder conviction would require proving he did. Meyer, the trial-division director, explains the reservations in the room this way: "The defendant was at home with his wife and children, and it was dark, and they were in the bedroom watching TV, and there was this loud banging on the side of their mobile home. The defendant felt there was evidence that these were...