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...campaign fell short of its goal of 40 new endowed professorships in FAS. The high cost--$2.5 million per professor--discouraged many donors, along with a preference for more tangible, brick-and-mortar results...
...transcribed pages of authorized National Security Agency intercepts of helicopter radio messages sent during the frantic evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Saigon on April 29, 1975. Operation Frequent Wind, as the rescue mission was dubbed, takes on a dramatic new immediacy in the words of the pilots dodging mortar fire and gas bombs to save U.S. embassy staff members before attempting to rescue any South Vietnamese. "Reports are that there are 200 Americans left to evacuate," an intercept reads. "Gunners Six to GSF Commander. Bring personnel up through the building. Do not let them [the South Vietnamese] follow...
...large part I had to learn from books. When I hit industry, I had to retrain myself anyway. Same for my kids. I wasted a lot of hard-earned money on degrees because of a myth vigorously perpetuated by the collegiate elite: that anyone without a bricks-and-mortar degree is ignorant. Three cheers for "Saylor U."! ROBERT WILLIAMS Na'alehu, Hawaii...
...companies controlled by father and son together account for more than a quarter of the capitalization of the Hong Kong stock market. In the telecom business alone, Li-controlled companies have 60% of Hong Kong's mobile-phone market and virtually the entire fixed-line system. Bricks and mortar? Li is Hong Kong's property king. Now he and son have displayed highly advanced knowledge of how to prosper in the new era of telecoms and the Internet. Richard, for one, sees these talents as anything but local. "These are truly global transactions," he told TIME. The message: watch...
...likely to be offered. This Pope, who has made much progress in Catholic-Jewish relations, has largely failed in his push for unity among Christians, as Orthodox churches rebuff him and Anglicans ordain women. Still, we can expect the man who helped dismantle communism to keep applying mortar to Christianity's schisms...