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...nonprofits says its funding has fallen, according to "The Quiet Crisis," a new report by Civic Enterprises, a social-issues think tank. When the economy was this rotten in the early 1970s, charitable giving fell more than 9%, adjusted for inflation. Experts believe something like that will occur in this recession...
Although there are several shuttle launches a year, they can only be seen when they occur at night...
...arguments escalate, a mistaken call to the police is made, Mrs. Hadid dies, and the life of everyone on stage is completely altered. The energy on the stage never falters, from the opening conversation between Clay, Kelly, and their out-of-place guest through the many strange confrontations that occur over the course of their story. There is no weak link in the company; the silent and troubled seven-year-old daughter (Helen Steinman) has a stage presence as forceful as that of Clay’s officious mother (Nancy E. Carroll). The standout performance, however, is given by Philana...
...goal for the administrative budget,” Brandt said. In addition, instead of cutting back on program funding, the school plans to simply offer admission to fewer students—while keeping class size constant—in order to ensure that over-yields do not occur. “We realized that we would need to be very cautious with the size of the graduate school in the coming year,” Brandt said, adding that the admissions committee has decreased its accepted applicant pool 9 percent. After accepting 660 Ph.D. students last fall, GSAS will only...
...wants to know how well it can track Chinese submarines moving in and out of their new and growing base off Hainan. And the Chinese want to prevent the U.S. from gathering such intelligence. Both sides claim legal cover for their actions, which suggests that similar showdowns will occur in the future. But such events, far from home and with few if any independent eyewitnesses, can quickly escalate into more serious confrontations - as in the case of the Gulf of Tonkin "attack" by North Vietnamese patrol boats against a pair of U.S. Navy destroyers that President Lyndon B. Johnson used...